Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Rohinton Mistry
In India during the mid-1970s, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four very different people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence--find their lives becoming...
Published: Nov 2001
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 624
Swimming Lessons: And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
By: Rohinton Mistry
Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry...
Published: Feb 1997
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 256
Family Matters
By: Rohinton Mistry
In Bombay, a retired professor named Nariman Vakeel looks back on his life, and specifically his failure to marry the woman he really loved, instead submitting to an arranged marriage. He lives now with his stepchildren, but when he breaks an ankle...
Published: Nov 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 431
Such a Long Journey
By: Rohinton Mistry
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son...
Published: Jun 1992
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 352