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The Space Between Us
"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.
"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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Turtleback Books
- Publish Date: Feb 6th, 2007
- Pages: NA
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 1.10in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781663608598
- Categories: • Women• Cultural Heritage• Family Life - General
About the Author
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.
Praise for this book
"[Umrigar] displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks."--Washington Post Book World, Praise for Bombay Time
"Intimately and compassionately told.... Sensuous.... Umrigar's memorable characters will live on for a long time."--Frances Itani, Washington Post Book World
"[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
"Umrigar is a perceptive and often piercing writer."--New York Times Book Review
"Poignant."--Entertainment Weekly
"Heartbreaking.... A subtle, elegant analysis of class and power... that quietly roars against tyranny."--Kirkus Reviews
"[The Space Between Us] is provocative and disturbing."--Boston Globe
"Sadness suffuses this eloquent tale, whose heart-stopping plot twists reveal the ferocity of fate."--Booklist (starred review)
"With humanity and suspense, novelist Thrity Umrigar tackles love, loyalty, injustice - and survival."--Marie Claire