The Space Between Us (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780061121241)

"This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst 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 at adept andcompelling in The Space Between Us--vividlycapturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictivelyreadable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal oftwo woman discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against theconfines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar'scaptivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of ZoraNeale Hurston's Their Eyes Were WatchingGod, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, and Barbara Kingsolver's ThePoisonwood Bible--a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.

Author: Thrity Umrigar
ISBN-10: 006112124X
ISBN-13: 9780061121241
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2007
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 1.17d
Large Print

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/22/2006 pg. 14