An 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 as we are with our own neighbours. The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly [...]
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 family.[...]
Set in mid-1970s India, a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet r[...]
Set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, this title presents the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family.[...]
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 defies his fatherâs ambitions for him. He is the o[...]
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just [...]
Handlingen i boka utspiller seg i Bombay, og forteller historien om syersken Dina Dalal, skredderne Darji og Omprakash og studenten Maneck. Gjennom disse personenes historie får vi vite mer om Indias fortid; fra selvstendigheten i 1947 til unntakstilstanden i 1975.[...]
Forfatteren tar oss med til 1990-årenes Bombay. Nariman Vakeel er parsi, 79 år gammel og enkemann. Han lider av Parkinsons sykdom og bor i en nedslitt leilighet sammen med sine to middelaldrende stebarn Coomy og Jal. Da Nariman en dag spaserer en tur ut i byens gater og brekker ankelen, blir omsor[...]
Tiden er 1975. Stedet er Indien. Premierministeren hedder Indira Gandhi, og situationen i landet er kommet fuldstændig ud af kontrol. Der er indført undtagelsestilstand, folk bliver vilkårligt samlet op fra gaden og kørt enten til tvangssterilisation eller tvangsarbejde. På papiret er[...]
Vem ska egentligen ta hand om Nariman Vakeel? En släktangelägenhet som verkar näst intill olöslig och hotar att spräcka den sköra sammanhållningen mellan den parsiska storfamiljens två hushåll. Och vem är då tvistens ursprung? En egensinnig 79-årig änkling som lider av Parkinsons sjukdo[...]
Vem ska egentligen ta hand om Nariman Vakeel? En släktangelägenhet som verkar näst intill olöslig och hotar att spräcka den sköra sammanhållningen mellan den parsiska storfamiljens två hushåll. Och vem är då tvistens ursprung? En egensinnig 79-årig änkling som lider av Parkinsons sjukdo[...]
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 dependent on [...]