Mistry, Rohinton
Mistry, Rohinton ( 1952 – ),Indian writer, born in Bombay but based in Canada since 1975 . Mistry is a former bank clerk whose first book was Tales from Firozsha Baag ( 1987 ), a collection of linked short stories set among the Parsi residents of a Bombay apartment building. More the portrait of a whole community than a series of discrete narratives, it paved the way for the novel Such a Long Journey ( 1991 ) in which the hero, Gustad Noble, works in a Bombay bank and becomes unwittingly involved in a scheme to divert funds into an illegal government account. Set against the backdrop of the creation of Bangladesh, it shows history as a juggernaut destroying and sweeping aside the lives of ordinary people, a theme also treated in the even more expansive A Fine Balance ( 1996 ). This heartbreaking account of poverty and thwarted ambition concerns two brothers working as tailors during the 1970s State of...
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