The Space Between UsThe Space Between Us
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Book Club Kit, 2007
Current format, Book Club Kit, 2007, 1st Harper Perennial ed, All copies in use.Book Club Kit, 2007
Current format, Book Club Kit, 2007, 1st Harper Perennial ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsCaptures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a life of loss and despair.
A new novel by the author of Bombay Time vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two compelling women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class parsi housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a life of loss and despair. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
&;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.
'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.
A new novel by the author of Bombay Time vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two compelling women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class parsi housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a life of loss and despair. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
&;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.
'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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