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Synopsis
"This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay."--Washington Post Book World
"Bracingly honest."--New York Times Book Review
The author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us--vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal of two women discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against the confines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar's captivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible--a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.
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Review
"With humanity and suspense, novelist Thrity Umrigar tackles love, loyalty, injustice - and survival."--Marie Claire
"[Umrigar] displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks."--Washington Post Book World, Praise for Bombay Time
"Poignant."--Entertainment Weekly
"[A] powerful novel."--National Post (Canada)
"Umrigar is a perceptive and often piercing writer."--New York Times Book Review
"[The Space Between Us] is provocative and disturbing."--Boston Globe
"Intimately and compassionately told.... Sensuous.... Umrigar's memorable characters will live on for a long time."--Frances Itani, Washington Post Book World
"Umrigar is a highly skilled storyteller...the novel's plot and depth of characterisation provide irresistible momentum."--Time Out New York
"Heartbreaking.... A subtle, elegant analysis of class and power... that quietly roars against tyranny."--Kirkus Reviews
"Sadness suffuses this eloquent tale, whose heart-stopping plot twists reveal the ferocity of fate."--Booklist (starred review)
From the Back Cover
Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, author Thrity Umrigar's extraordinary novel demonstrates how the lives of the rich and poor are intrinsically connected yet vastly removed from each other, and how the strong bonds of womanhood are eternally opposed by the divisions of class and culture.
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 006079156X
- ISBN 13 9780060791568
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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