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Book Description
Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly deContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Everyday miracles
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 487pp, Faber, £16.99 When A Fine Balance , Rohinton Mistry's second novel, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1996, Germaine Greer commented that, though she had spent some months teaching at a women's college in B ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
3 Reviews
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Longish, but a masterpiece of the genre
Mistry's previous novel, 'A very fine balance', was a great insight into the lives of people living in Mumbai (Bombay). This takes a similar, but distinct slant, tracking the shenanigans within a family with a complex history channeling Ibsen.
Great observations, with well drawn characters, the st ... (continue)
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Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 448 Pages
- Edition: Vintage
- ISBN-10: 037570342X
- ISBN-13: 9780375703423
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Nov 18, 2003
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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It's all a bit of a mystery
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry Faber, £10.99, pp487 True to the rather insistent double meaning of its title, Family Matters is a strong, old-fashioned novel about modern Bombay, telling the story of three generations of a Parsi family. The book begi ... (read full critics)