The Space Between Us: A Novel - Brossura

Umrigar, Thrity N.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 006079156X ISBN 13: 9780060791568

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2007

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

“With humanity and suspense, novelist Thrity Umrigar tackles love, loyalty, injustice - and survival.” (Marie Claire)

“Poignant.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Sadness suffuses this eloquent tale, whose heart-stopping plot twists reveal the ferocity of fate.” (Booklist (starred review))

“Heartbreaking.... A subtle, elegant analysis of class and power... that quietly roars against tyranny.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“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 perceptive and often piercing writer.” (New York Times Book Review)

“[The Space Between Us] is provocative and disturbing.” (Boston Globe)

“[A] powerful novel.” (National Post (Canada))

“Umrigar is a highly skilled storyteller...the novel’s plot and depth of characterisation provide irresistible momentum.” (Time Out New York)

L'autore:

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.

 

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 006079156X
• ISBN 13: 9780060791568
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 321