The Space Between Us Novel

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The space between us novel. Finally its here peeps. The space between us is the second novel by thrity umrigar published by william morrow and company in january 2006. The space between us is a musing on the bond between two modern day bombay 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.

The space between us is a novel about the relationship between two indian women the upper middle class serabai and her lower class servant bhima. Best selling author thrity umrigar won the nieman fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the pen beyond margins award with the space between us. Set in present day mumbai india the novel follows the lives of two women. Sera and her long time servant bhima.

The pair experience similar situations in their lives. An english translation wait maybe just review of space between us a novel focused on ramking from my engineer the series. Serabai dubash an upper middle class widow and her domestic servant bhima. Set in modern day india this evocative novel follows upper middle class parsi housewife sera dubash and 65 year old illiterate household worker bhima as they make their way through life.

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. Poignant evocative and unforgettable the space between us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. In india s patriarchal society men hold the power and abuse of women of all classes is often overlooked. This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst the sensuous background of everyday life in bombay.

Bhima is a servant to sera and while they have become friends in a sense they will always be divided by class and family will always top friendship. Their union is tested again and again frayed by bhima s servile role by sera s educated middle class parsi upbringing and by the deeply sown seeds of bigotry and class prejudice that rank bhima as less than human. 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.