Family Matters (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rohinton Mistry
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-1990’s
- Setting: Bombay, India
- Principal Characters: Nariman Vakeel, Coomy Contractor, Jal Contractor, Roxana Chenoy, Yezad Chenoy, Murad Chenoy, Jehangir Chenoy, Vikram Kapur, Husain
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Religion, Fathers, Good and evil, Revenge, India or East Indian people, Sick persons, Money, 1990’s, Morality or morals, Sacrifice, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: Bombay, India
From the appearance of his first published work, the short story collection Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987), which appeared in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag (1989), Rohinton Mistry has been recognized as an outstanding contemporary writer. His blend of unsentimental compassion and uncompromising realism, his sense of tragedy, and his gift for comedy have led critics to compare him to such other fiction writers as the Irish James Joyce, whose novel Ulysses (1922) described the thoughts and interactions of his characters...
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