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Zusatztext “A storyteller through and through, Umrigar ensures that her characters face up to the costs and consequences created by their choices, right or wrong, principled or unprincipled.” Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext As students in 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable, but the quartet has since drifted apart. When Armaiti, now living in America, learns that she is gravely ill, she hopes to see the friends she left behind thirty years ago. For Laleh, reunion is bittersweet, but she promises to fulfill her friend’s wish. She convinces Kavita to put aside the past, and the two search for Nishta, who has long been hiding in a bitter, oppressive marriage. In the course of their journey to reconnect, the four women must confront the truths of their lives and acknowledge long-held regrets, secrets, and desires. And they will have to decide what matters most, a choice that just may help them reclaim the extraordinary world they once found. Exploring the enduring bonds of friendship and offering an unforgettable portrait of modern India, The World We Found is a dazzling masterwork from the remarkable Thrity Umrigar. Zusammenfassung Thrity Umrigar! acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven ! returns with a breathtaking new novel—a skillfully wrought! emotionally resonant story of four women and the indelible friendship they share. Fans of Jennifer Haigh’s Faith ! Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies ! and Katrina Kittle’s The Kindness of Strangers will be captivated by Umrigar’s The World We Found —a moving story of bottled secrets! unfulfilled dreams! and the acceptance that can still lead to redemption! from a writer whom the New York Times calls “perceptive and often piercing.” ...
