Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
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- ISBN 13
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New Delhi: Penguin Books India, December 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Dust stains to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 500 pages.
Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson's and haunted by memories of his past. He lives with his two middle-aged stepchildren, Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her brother, Jal, mild-mannered and acquiescent. But the burden of the illness worsens the already strained family relationships. Soon, their sweet-tempered half-sister, Roxana, is forced to assume sole responsibility for her bedridden father. And Roxana's husband, besieged by financial worries, devises a scheme of deception involving his eccentric employer at a sporting goods store, setting in motion a series of events that leads to the narrative's moving outcome. Family Matters has all the richness, the gentle humour, and the narrative sweep that have earned Mistry the highest of accolades around the world.
Synopsis
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and now lives near Toronto. His first novel, Such a Long Journey , received, among other awards, the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book of the Year. In 1995, A Fine Balance won the second annual Giller Prize and, in 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Mistry is also the author of Swimming Lessons , a collection of short stories.
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- Title
- Family Matters
- Author
- Rohinton Mistry
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571218741
- ISBN 13
- 9780571218745
- Publisher
- Penguin Books India
- Place of Publication
- New Delhi
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 500
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, domestic, family, parents, children, adult children, step-children, step-families, disease, elderly, old age, older men, Parkinson's, patients, reminiscing, Bombay, Mumbai, India
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- India; Fiction; Asia; Domestic and Family Fiction;
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