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The Space Between Us
Contributor(s): Umrigar, Thrity (Author)
ISBN: 0062067893     ISBN-13: 9780062067890
Publisher: Harper Perennial
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
Dewey: FIC
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.64" W x 8.27" (0.73 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
"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.

Contributor Bio(s): Umrigar, Thrity: -

Thrity Umrigar is the author of seven novels Everybody's Son, The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time; a memoir, First Darling of the Morning; and a children's picture book, When I Carried You in My Belly. A former journalist, she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a finalist for the PEN Beyond Margins Award. A professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio.