01429nam a22002297a 4500 20220510092615.0 220510b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 057120421x Aloy eng 23 823 MISF Rohinton Mistry 35295 Family matters London: Faber and Faber, 2002 viii,486p. PB 23x15cm English 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 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. English Fiction 35296 English Literature 35297 MISTRY (Rohinton) 35298 ddc GF 222854 222854 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2013-03-24 0 823 MISF GF02391 2022-05-10 00:00:00 2022-05-10 GF