Rohinton Mistry Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Such a Long Journey (1991)
  2. A Fine Balance (1995)
  3. Family Matters (2002)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987)
  2. Swimming Lessons (1988)
  3. The Scream (2006)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories (1987)
  2. From Ink Lake (1990)

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Rohinton Mistry Books Overview

Such a Long Journey

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 reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like an heroic mission. But he soon finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception. Compassionate, and rich in details of character and place, this unforgettable novel charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change.

A Fine Balance

Based on the Booker shortlisted novel by Rohinton Mistry andadapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon Smith, this programme textedition of A Fine Balance is published to coincide with Tamasha Theatre Company’s 2007 revival and tour of the hit play. India, 1975, and a callous government has declared a State of Emergency. In these uncertain times a spirited Parsi widowdetermined to avoid a second marriage takes a student boarder and twoHindu tailors into her ramshackle flat. The four strangers whose lives havebecome inextricably linked find themselves crossing divides of caste,class and religion to form the most unexpected of friendships. Produced by Tamasha creator of the groundbreaking East is East and the award winning musical Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral A Fine Balance was first seen at Hampstead Theatre in 2006, where it enjoyed a sell out run.’it tells a grim tale with wit, warmth and a keen eye for the join between public policies and private lives’ The Times ‘nothing short of a miracle’ Sunday Telegraph’a moving but unsentimental homage to endurance, asking for no pity, only understanding’ Sunday Times

Family Matters

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 memories of his past. He lives with his two middle aged stepchildren, Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her brother, Jal, mild mannered and acquiescent. But the burden of the illness worsens the already strained family relationships. Soon, their sweet tempered half sister, Roxana, is forced to assume sole responsibility for her bedridden father. And Roxana s husband, besieged by financial worries, devises a scheme of deception involving his eccentric employer at a sporting goods store, setting in motion a series of events that leads to the narrative s moving outcome. Family Matters has all the richness, the gentle humour, and the narrative sweep that have earned Mistry the highest of accolades around the world.

Tales from Firozsha Baag

In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry opens our eyes and our hearts to the rich, complex patterns of life inside this Bombay apartment building. The occupants from Jaakaylee, the ghost seer, through Najamai, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the young boy whose life threads through the book all express the tensions between the past and the present, between the old world and the new.

Swimming Lessons

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 charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new.’A fine collection…
the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives.’ Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

The Scream

Rohinton Mistry is arguably Canada’s most beloved and popular writer. His fiction has won prestigious prizes in Canada and around the world. The Oprah s Book Club selection of his novel A Fine Balance increased Mistry s already large audience in North America, and in Canada alone to more than a quarter of a million readers. He is working on a new novel, as yet unscheduled, but this delicious little book will be savoured by Mistry s hungry and devoted fans. The Scream is a single story by Rohinton Mistry, to date his shortest book! And what a gem it is.
Set in a Bombay apartment, The Scream is narrated by a man at the end of his life, who is angry at the predicament of old age, at his isolation from his family and from a world that no longer understands him. He rails and raves in ways that are both hilarious and moving, and which touch us with recognition.

Printed originally in a limited edition of 150 copies that was sold exclusively by World Literacy of Canada as a fundraiser for their organization, The Scream was exquisitely produced and featured original artwork by the celebrated Canadian artist Tony Urquhart. This is the first trade edition of this treasure, which will retain beautiful production values as well as all of Tony Urquhart s colourful, dynamic artwork, which was inspired by the story.

This gorgeous little book is a must have for all of Rohinton Mistry s fans, for their own shelves as a collector s item and as the perfect gift.

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