- Literature, Master and servant, Grandmothers, Social classes
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.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Thrity N. Umrigar
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- HarperLargePrint, HarperCollins Publishers, WmMorrow
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780739469866
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“Although it is dawn, inside Bhima's heart it is dusk.”
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