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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, ...Show more
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad ...Show more
Family Matters (U.S. ed) by Rohinton Mistry
16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson's and haunted by memorie ...Show more
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reason ...Show more
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