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Loading... The space between usby Thrity N. Umrigar (otherwise under Thrity Umrigar)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Set in India, this is a story woven around two compelling, but very different, women. This book stayed with me for a long time. I loved the writing and found many quotable quotes. (  ) akeela | Dec 23, 2009 |  I had just finished the White Tiger by Aravind Adiga which I found so so. I loved Thrity Umrigars beautiful writing. It gave me a chilling close look into the lives of two women living in contempory India. (  ) oppinsurrey | Dec 7, 2009 | The relationship between a woman and her servant seems close. The woman believes she is open minded and liberal, that she is not class conscious as others in India. But what this book does is show that class differences do sometimes live in our subconscious and it's only when situations arise that threaten the lives of those close to us, that the prejudices surrounding caste consciousness will rise and cloud our judgement. ( ) cameling | Oct 28, 2009 | Nice read. This novel is set in modern Mumbai and describes the world through the eyes of a parsi middle class women and her maid. Both has suffered a great deal in their own way and this gives a picture of exploitation and suffering women experience in modern India, Author has a good command on the language and has sketched the characters to perfection although I felt some where in the middle the story slowly drifted away multiple times. But all credits to author this a nice and insightful read manupaulose | Oct 23, 2009 | Amazing book about two women's lives in modern day Bombay, prejudices and similarities. (  ) lenoreaz | Oct 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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When we first meet Bhima, she is sharing a thin mattress with Maya, the granddaughter upon whom high hopes and dreams were placed, only to be shattered by an unexpected pregnancy and its disastrous consequences. As time goes on, we learn that Sera and her family have used their power and money time and time again to influence the lives of Bhima and Maya, from caring for Bhima's estranged husband after a workplace accident, to providing the funds for Maya's college education. We also learn that Sera's seemingly privileged life is not as it appears; after enduring years of cruelty under her mother-in-law's roof, she faced physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband, pain that only Bhima could see and alleviate. Yet through the triumphs and tragedies, Sera and Bhima always shared a bond that transcended class and race; a bond shared by two women whose fate always seemed to rest in the hands of others, just outside their control.
Told in a series of flashbacks and present day encounters, The Space Between Us gains strength from both plot and prose. A beautiful tale of tragedy and hope, Umrigar's second novel is sure to linger in readers' minds. --Gisele Toueg
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