The Blue Notebook
An unforgettable, deeply affecting debut novel, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious fifteen-year-old girl from rural India who is sold into sexual slavery by her father. As she navigates the grim realities of Mumbai’s Common Street, Batuk manages to put pen to paper,...
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An unforgettable, deeply affecting debut novel, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious fifteen-year-old girl from rural India who is sold into sexual slavery by her father. As she navigates the grim realities of Mumbai’s Common Street, Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and writing fantastic tales that help her transcend her daily existence. Beautifully crafted, surprisingly hopeful, and filled with both tragedy and humor, The Blue Notebook shows how even in the most difficult situations, people use storytelling to make sense of and give meaning to their lives.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385528726 (0385528728)
Publish date: July 6th 2010
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
India,
Asia
There was a party for Batuk, everyone came, even though Batuk did not know the reason for this celebration. She thought she had a terminal illness and that later she would leave with her father to visit a doctor in another city. Even on their journey, her father would not reveal the reason for their...
A read that should stir all the reader's feeling and emotions, this is not a book one can finish and feel absolutely nothing. Batuk is nine when she is sold by her father and enters the hungry world of childhood slavery and prostitution. Human trafficking and the trafficking of minor is a huge money...
Eerily haunting story about a child prostitute in India who keeps a journal in "the blue notebook"
I loved this book! Even though at times the way that Batuk refers to her situation is silly (calling it "sweetcake" and "baking", the johns are "bakers") and her imagination makes it hard to follow sometimes what is going on...I really felt connected to her. The first part of the book goes from th...
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