Estamos en 1975, en una ciudad india junto al mar. El gobierno acaba de declarar el estado de emergencia, y dada la escasez de vivienda cuatro personas se ven obligadas a compartir un pequeño apartamento. Forman un cuarteto especial: Dina, una cost...
A través de estos once relatos, Rohinton Mistry nos conduce a un mundo rico, misterioso para cualquier occidental, dibujando fragmentos de vida de Firozsha Baag, un edificio de apartamentos de Bombay. Allí encontramos a Jaakaylee, el visiona...
Cuando la salud de Nariman empeora, Coomy conspira para que su hermanastra, Roxana, se ocupe de él. Este traslado, aparentemente insignificante, desencadenará el esclarecimiento de asuntos familiares largamente pospuestos.
Som al 1975. En una ciutat índia al costat del mar. El govern ha declarat l'Estat d'Emergència, i a causa de la manca d'habitatge, quatre persones es veuen obligades a compartir un petit apartament. Formen un quartet ben especial:...
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 governm...
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...
Gustad Noble is a hard-working bank clerk and 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. One day he receives a letter from an old friend,...
Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry chart...
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...
Set in the mid-1970s in India, A Fine Balance tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a State of Internal Emergency. Through days of bleakness and hope, their...