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BOM BAY TIME
by Thrity Umrigar
Bombay Time (Picador/St. Martin's Press, July 2001) is a rich, moving and deeply felt novel about the longtime residents of a Parsi apartment building in Bombay and their love-hate relationship with the city of their birth. As they gather at the wedding of one of their neighbors, these middle-aged men and women look back at their younger selves with wisfulness and nostalgia. The novel traces Adi Patel's disintegration into alcoholism; indicts Dosamai, the neighborhood gossip; delineates the romantic betrayal of Soli Contractor; and tells the story of the twin tragedies that befall Tehmi Engineer, a reclusive widow. At the heart of this bittersweet novel is Rusi Bilimoria, a disillusioned businessman who struggles to make sense of his life and hold together his community.
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"Thrity Umrigar has an acute ear for dialogue, and a gift for unmasking the complexities of personal relationships. As she sifts through her characters' personalities she dredges up layers of envy, hope, bitterness, grudges, regret, joy, and the glue of shared memory that binds these people in unexpected ways."
---Bapsi Sidhwa, author of Cracking India
"Bombay Time's wonderful cast of characters and their tragically funny stories stay with you long after you finish reading this bittersweet novel. Thrity Umrigar's heart is as big as her homeland, and this is a beautiful book."
--Brad Watson, author of Last Days of the Dog-Men