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The Space Between Us

By Thrity Umrigar

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2005
ISBN
0061752606, 9780061752605, 0060791551, 9780060791551
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
833 kB (853300 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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