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"This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst 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 at adept andcompelling in The Space Between Us--vividlycapturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictivelyreadable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal oftwo woman discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against theconfines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar'scaptivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of ZoraNeale Hurston's Their Eyes Were WatchingGod, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, and Barbara Kingsolver's ThePoisonwood Bible--a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.
Author: Thrity Umrigar
Publisher: William Morrow Large Print
Published: 03/27/2007
Pages: 468
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 1.17d
ISBN13: 9780061121241
ISBN10: 006112124X
Large Print
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Women
"Bracingly honest." --New York Times Book Review
The author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is at adept andcompelling in The Space Between Us--vividlycapturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictivelyreadable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal oftwo woman discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against theconfines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar'scaptivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of ZoraNeale Hurston's Their Eyes Were WatchingGod, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, and Barbara Kingsolver's ThePoisonwood Bible--a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.
Author: Thrity Umrigar
Publisher: William Morrow Large Print
Published: 03/27/2007
Pages: 468
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 1.17d
ISBN13: 9780061121241
ISBN10: 006112124X
Large Print
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Women