# The Patient in Bed Number 12

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- Authors: [Raj Kamal Jha](https://www.bookquiver.com/raj-kamal-jha)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2023-11-01

## Description

A hate video goes viral. A dying father sets out in search of the living. A daughter risks all to follow her head and heart. The Patient in Bed Number 12 is a remarkable novel framed as a confession from parent to child, from child to parent. In this profoundly moving exchange, secrets long buried tumble out, mysterious and dreamlike: a grieving mother finds solace in a newspaper photograph; a ghost comes to life in an abandoned fridge; children fill empty jars with the night’s darkness; a young couple plan how to seek permission for their love; and three men with a phone camera turn a family’s world upside down. Just as one breath holds in its end the beginning of another, each story’s close becomes the opening for the next—linking fragile strands of individual lives into a tapestry of hope and heartbreak. From Raj Kamal Jha, India’s ‘novelist of the newsroom,’ comes a searing investigation of the pulse of today’s India: a billion-plus young people, restless and ambitious, trying to shed the burdens of their past—and yet haunted by ghosts of mistrust and hate.

## Editions

### The Patient in Bed Number 12

- Publisher: India Hamish Hamilton
- ISBN: 978-06-7009-971-9
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2023-11-01
- Language: en_IN