A Fine Balance von Mistry, Rohinton

Set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his...

Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. This sets in motion a series of events - a...

Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people of...

Rohinton Mistry. Aus dem Engl. von Matthias Müller 1. Auflage 1995 862 S. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag 14*22 Frankfurt am Main : Krüger,

"Family Matters" von Rohinton Mistry ist ein eindrucksvoller Roman, der das Leben einer parsischen Familie in Mumbai beleuchtet. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Nariman Vakeel, einen 79-jährigen Patriarchen, der an Parkinson leidet....