New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). Stiff pictorial covers with flaps, [ix], 321 pp. Copyright date is 2005; this is an Advance Reading Copy of the January 2006 release; announces marketing campaign, foreign editions. From the front flap: "Set in contemporary Bombay, The Space Between Us tells the story of Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife, and Bhima, the woman who works as a domestic servant in her home. Despite the class and cultural differences between the two women, Sera and Bhima remain bound by their gender and their shared life experiences--including marriages that start out with great promise but end up as disappointments." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. Wraps. Fine/No dj. 23 X 16 cm.

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Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house. In Sera Dubash's home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider. She cleans furniture she is not permitted to sit on. She washes glasses from which she is not allowed to drink. Yet despite being separated from each other by blood and class, she and Sera find themselves bound by gender and shared life experiences.Sera is an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage. A widow, she devotes herself to her family, spending much of her time caring for her pregnant daughter, Dinaz, a kindhearted, educated professional, and her charming and successful son-in-law, Viraf.Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. Cursed by fate, she sacrifices all for her beautiful, headstrong granddaughter, Maya, a university student whose education —paid for by Sera —will enable them to escape the slums. But when an unwed Maya becomes pregnant by a man whose identity she refuses to reveal, Bhima's dreams of a better life for her granddaughter, as well as for herself, may be shattered forever.Poignant and compelling, evocative and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India and witnessed through two compelling and achingly real women, the novel shows how the lives of the rich and the poor are intrinsically connected yet vastly removed from each other, and vividly captures how the bonds of womanhood are pitted against the divisions of class and culture.

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Seller: Twin City Antiquarian Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: LIFI00251
Title: The Space Between Us
Author: Umrigar, Thrity
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: No dj
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0060888156
ISBN 13: 9780060888152
Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2005
Keywords: Fiction India
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;
X weight: 32 oz
Size: 23 X 16 cm

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