The Space Between Us - Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions

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. The Space Between Us takes students through the intersection of gender and class-how the lives of women from the working class and the middle class seem at once so connected and so removed from each other. This is a story of the ultimate choice between the bonds of gender and the division of class. ''Thrity Umrigar has a striking talent for portraying pain and suffering and the sheer unfairness of life. The result is a vital social comment on contemporary India.''-Financial Times

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.
 

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thrity Umrigar
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.05.2011
• EAN: 9780062067890
• ISBN: 978-0-06-206789-0
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Narrative theme: Interior life, FICTION: Women, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Family Life / General, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: WORLD FICTION, FICTION: Action & Adventure, FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Psychological, ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, LITERATURE: WORLD, Classic fiction: general and literary, Literature / Women's Literature, First Year Experience / World Fiction, Literature / World, Asian & Asian American / Asian American Literature