"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...
Thrity Umrigar, who "displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks," (Washington Post Book World) brings her talent to the social struggles of modern day...
"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
The author of Bombay Time, If Today...
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...
Sucesso de p?blico, A dist?ncia entre n?s fez da indiana Thrity Umrigar uma escritora com mais de 300 mil exemplares vendidos no Brasil. Thrity constr?i um relato vigoroso sobre as diferentes formas de opress?o que ainda atuam sobre as mulheres no mundo todo. O livro aborda a...