Thrity Umrigar: 17 books

Sucesso com mais de 200 mil exemplares vendidos no Brasil, Thrity Umrigar está de volta às livrarias. Novo romance da autora do best-seller A distância entre nós, imigrante indiana e psiquiatra americana têm suas vidas transformadas pela amizade e cumplicidade A indiana Lakshmi mora há...

Romance que conquistou os brasileiros e transformou Thrity Umrigar em autora best-seller está de volta às livrarias Sucesso de público, A distância entre nós ganha uma nova edição pela Globo Livros. O livro, que fez da indiana Thrity Umrigar uma escritora com mais de 200 mil exemplares...

A autora indiana Thrity Umrigar pinta um retrato incrivelmente detalhado da multifacetada Bombaim. Nascida na minoria parse em um país de maioria hindu, ela frequentou a escola católica, onde o híndi era ensinado como língua estrangeira. Thrity relembra sua educação de classe média e recria...

“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 Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is...

“Powerful. . . . Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, The Weight of Heaven packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level. . . . Umrigar . . . is a descriptive master.” — Christian Science Monitor From Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of The Space Between...

Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven, returns with a breathtaking new novel—a skillfully wrought, emotionally resonant story of four women and the indelible friendship they share. Fans of Jennifer Haigh’s Faith, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies,...

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself...

First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story...

From bestselling novelist Thrity Umrigar, Bombay Time At the wedding of a young man from a middle-class apartment building in Bombay, the men and women of this unique community gather together and look back on their youthful, idealistic selves and consider the changes the years have wrought....

Love Your Forever meets On the Night You Were Born in this heartwarming picture book about a mother's love for her child. The special bond between a mother and her child begins well before the baby is born. But once the baby is born and starts to grow into her own person, traits from both parents...

Autora de A distância entre nós narra a história comovente de uma mulher que precisa redescobrir o sentido da vida após morte do marido Em A doçura do mundo Thrity Umrigar narra a história de Tehmina, uma dona de casa indiana que fica viúva após 40 anos de casamento e precisa redefinir...

Um lugar para todos acompanha as trajetórias de um grupo de moradores de um bairro de classe média em Bombaim e a forma como sua vida é influenciada pelas mudanças ocorridas na cidade ao longo dos anos. Reunidos para o casamento de um dos residentes mais novos, os mais velhos revisitam as pessoas...

The recent death of her beloved husband, Rustom, has taken its toll on Tehmina Sethna. Now, while visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home, she is being asked to choose between continuing her old life in India and starting a new one in this unfamiliar country with her son, his American wife,...

The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families—one black, one white. During...