The World We Found

Thrity Umrigar

mai. de 2012 · Recorded Books · Narração de Soneela Nankani

Sobre este audiolivro

Best-selling author and PEN/Beyond Margins Award finalist Thrity Umrigar's acclaimed novels "resonate with rich prose and vibrant depictions of India" (Booklist). In The World We Found, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta-once friends at the University of Bombay-reconnect 30 years later when Armaiti is diagnosed with cancer. Coming together, all four women are forced to reexamine their lives. "[A] powerful meditation on friendship, on loss, and all the regrets of middle age ." -Boston Globe

Sobre o autor

Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American writer, who was born in Mumbai. She received her Bachelors of Science from Bombay University. She immigrated to the United States when she was 21.She then went on to earn her M.A. From Ohio State and her Phd from Kent State University. She is a journalist and the author of the novels Bombay Time, The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven. She has written for the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other newspapers, and regularly writes for The Boston Globe 's book pages. She is currently assistant professor of English at Case Western Reserve University where she teaches creative writing and literature. She was a winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in English and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Her title Space Between Us made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2011.