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Book Synopsis“This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.” —Washington Post Book World
“Bracingly honest.” —New York Times Book Review
A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Thrity Umrigar''s critically acclaimed and bestselling novel—a luminous, unforgettable story of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family set in modern-day India.
The Space Between Us 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. A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, Umrigar''s extraordinary novel demonstrates ho
