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Informationen zum Autor Thrity Umrigar was a daily journalist for 17 years and is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard. She has written for the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer and other national newspapers and writes on a regular basis for the Boston Globe's book pages. Currently Umrigar teaches creative writing and journalism at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has written two novels, ‘Bombay Time’ and ‘The Space Between Us’. Klappentext Each morning! Bhima! a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay! leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house. In Sera Dubash's home! Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider. She cleans furniture she is not permitted to sit on. She washes glasses from which she is not allowed to drink. Yet despite being separated from each other by blood and class! she and Sera find themselves bound by gender and shared life experiences. Sera is an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage. A widow! she devotes herself to her family! spending much of her time caring for her pregnant daughter! Dinaz! a kindhearted! educated professional! and her charming and successful son-in-law! Viraf. Zusammenfassung In this beautifully crafted novel about the interlinked lives of two women! Thrity Umrigar explores the complex relationships between the classes in India! rarely addressed in contemporary fiction.
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'A Mumbai Parsi novel, a post-nationalist slum poverty novel, and perhaps most compellingly, a maid-and-mistress story: think Douglas Sirk's film "Imitations of Life". The varied elements of this tale of affection and class conflict are carried off with a winning ease and enthusiasm that make it both engrossing and moving.' The Independent
'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.' The Financial Times
'It is a great book; I love it...I am so happy for Thrity Umrigar! And proud of her as a woman, too. What a gift she has given us. Please tell her of my admiration, joy, delight and relief (it is so precious to have a book about a woman one rarely even "sees" in society, whether Indian or American).' Alice Walker, author of 'The Colour Purple'
'Joyful, lyrical, tragic - and a real page-turner.' Voyager magazine
