01345nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000090007304100080008208200180009010000200010824500190012826000360014730000280018336500120021152008510022365000200107465000230109470000220111720220510092615.0220510b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a057120421x  cAloy  aeng  223a823bMISF  aRohinton Mistry  aFamily matters  aLondon:bFaber and Faber,c2002  aviii,486p.bPBc23x15cm  2English  aRohinton 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 his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs.
Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power.  aEnglish Fiction  aEnglish Literature  aMISTRY (Rohinton)