Rohinton Mistry 79335

Familiekwesties

Bert Bakker, 2003. Paperback. Pp: 431. Familiekwesties speelt zich af in het overbevolkte en politiek corrupte Bombay van de jaren negentig. Mistry beschrijft op boeiende en overtuigende wijze de lotgevallen van een Parsi-familie. Met humor en meeslepende stijl creëert hij een wereld waar het lot danst met de vrije wil. Nariman Vakeel is een 79-jarige weduwnaar en hoofd van een kleine, met elkaar in de clinch liggende, familie. Hij leeft met zijn twee stiefkinderen in zijn eens zo statige woning. Hij lijdt aan de ziekte van Parkinson en wanneer hij zijn enkel ook nog eens breekt, willen zijn stiefkinderen van hem af. Uiteindelijk wordt hij gedwongen om bij zijn dochter, Roxana, haar man, Yezad, en hun twee zonen in te trekken. Narimans aanwezigheid in het huishouden wordt niet op prijs gesteld. Het huis, dat hij voor ze gekocht had, is zeker niet de idyllische veilige haven die hij zich had voorgesteld. Wanneer de spanningen toenemen, besluit Yezad op slinkse wijze de zaken in eigen hand te nemen. Daarop barst een serie verwikkelingen los die ingrijpende gevolgen heeft voor alle betrokkenen. Rohinton Mistry (1952) werd geboren in Bombay. Sinds 1975 woont hij in Canada. Familiekwesties is, na Such a Long Journey (1991) en Een wankel evenwicht (1995), de derde roman van Mistry die op de short-list voor de Booker Prize heeft gestaan. ISBN: 9789035124431. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Rohinton Mistry 79335

Family Matters

Faber, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 487. 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 ParkinsonU+2019s 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. ISBN: 9780571204212. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Rohinton Mistry 79335

Family matters

Groothandel / BESTEL, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 500. This story centres on a 79-year-old Parsi widower named Nariman who lives with his stepson and stepdaughter. Nariman's wife died many years before, leaving behind t. ISBN: 9780571207633. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Rohinton Mistry 79335

A Fine Balance

Faber & Faber, 2010. Paperback. Pp: 614. 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 government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state. ISBN: 9780571258192. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Rohinton Mistry 79335

Fine Balance

Faber & Faber, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 614. Set in mid-1970s India, a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the governmen. ISBN: 9780571230587. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Such a Long Journey

Penguin Group, 2003. Pp: 339. This Is A Briliant First Novel By One Of The Most Remarkable Writers To Have Emerged From The Indian Literary Tradition In Many Years. ISBN: 9780571218806. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Rohinton Mistry 79335

Swimming Lessons, and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag

Penguin Books, 1990. Paperback. Pp: 250. 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. ISBN: 9780140128079. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Mistry, Rohinton

Family Matters

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 1st U.S. Edition. 431 [3]p. deckle fore-edge, dj (A Borzoi book). .

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MISTRY, ROHINTON

Family Matters

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 2002, 1st edition - review copy. (Cloth) As new in as new dust jacket. 487pp. Press Release and Spring 2002 Tour Schedule laid in.

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Mistry, Rohinton

Family Matters.

McClelland & Stewart, 2002. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing. 8vo, hardcover, dustjacket. Fine/Fine copy. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Mistry, Rohinton

Family Matters

Near fine condition. Faber and Faber, 2002. First UK edition-3rd printing(4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3). Blue hardback(two small nicks and scratch on the cover) with Dj(two small nicks, crease and scratches on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with two small ink marks on the outer edges, two small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. 487pp. Price un-clipped. Heavy book. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780571194278

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Rohinton Mistry

Family Matters

Faber and Faber (UK) 2002 Paperback, 487pp. "Nariman Vakee is a 79 year old Parsi widower and the patriach of a small discordant family. Beset by from Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, he lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren - Jal, mild-mannered and acquiescent, and Coomy, bitter and domineering. When Nariman's illness is compounded by a broken ankle, Coomy plots to turn his round-the-clock care over to Roxana, her sweet-tempered sister. She suceeds, but not without cost, and eventually Nariman takes up residence with Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two young sons, Murad and Jehangir, in cramped conditions that the arrival of the now bed-ridden old man makes worse. The effect of the new responsibility on Yezad, who is already besieged by financial worries, pushes him into a scheme of deception involving Vikram Kapur, his eccentric employer at the Bombay Sporting Goods Emporium. This sets in motion a series of events - a great unravelling and a revelation of the family's love-torn past - that leads to the narrative's final outcome. ", (ISBN: 9780571204212). Good.

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Family Matters

London: Faber and Faber, 2002, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Blue cloth boards stamped in white on the spine. Fine in Fine dust-jacket. .

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Mistry, Rohinton (1952-)

Family matters / Rohinton Mistry

London : Faber 2002. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 487 pages; Physical description. : 487 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: Indian authors - 20th century. Indian authors - 21st century. Authors. Canadian - 20th century. Authors. Canadian - 21st century. Indian fiction - 21st century. Canadian fiction - 21st century. Families - India - Bombay - Fiction. Bombay (India) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction. Summary: The long-awaited new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author. Family Matters is an intricate story of domestic conflict set against modern-day Bombay. The story centres on a 79-year-old Parsi widower named Nariman who lives with his step-son and step-daughter. Nariman's wife died many years before. leaving behind the two children from her first marriage and the daughter. Roxana. they had together. Wanting above all for Roxana not to have to live with him in this 'house of unhappiness' as he calls it. Nariman spent all his money to give her and her husband. Yezad. a place of their own. Now. beset by Parkinson's Disease. Nariman tries to endure his family's protectiveness until he finally defies their wishes and ventures outside. He falls and hurts his ankle and after a brief stay in hospital comes home more needy and cantankerous than ever. His step-children can't cope and Nariman goes to live with Roxana and Yezad. This sets in motion a series of events which do nothing to assuage growing family conflict and the unravelling of affections. Once again this author has created a beautifully realised world with all too human characters. This novel has all the richness. the compassion and the narrative sweep that have earned Rohinton Mistry the highest of accolades and prizes around the world. It is a stunning achievement.ISBN: 0571194273.

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Mistry, Rohinton (1952-)

Family matters

London : Faber 2002. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; 500 p. ; 18 cm. Summary; The long-awaited new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author. Family Matters is an intricate story of domestic conflict set against modern-day Bombay. The story centres on a 79-year-old Parsi widower named Nariman who lives with his step-son and step-daughter. Nariman's wife died many years before. leaving behind the two children from her first marriage and the daughter. Roxana. they had together. Wanting above all for Roxana not to have to live with him in this 'house of unhappiness' as he calls it. Nariman spent all his money to give her and her husband. Yezad. a place of their own. Now. beset by Parkinson's Disease. Nariman tries to endure his family's protectiveness until he finally defies their wishes and ventures outside. He falls and hurts his ankle and after a brief stay in hospital comes home more needy and cantankerous than ever. His step-children can't cope and Nariman goes to live with Roxana and Yezad. This sets in motion a series of events which do nothing to assuage growing family conflict and the unravelling of affections. Once again this author has created a beautifully realised world with all too human characters. This novel has all the richness. the compassion and the narrative sweep that have earned Rohinton Mistry the highest of accolades and prizes around the world. It is a stunning achievement. Subjects; Family - India - Bombay - Fiction. Indic fiction (English) - 21st century. Families - India - Bombay - Fiction. Indian authors - 20th century. Indian authors - 21st century. Authors. Canadian - 20th century. Authors. Canadian - 21st century. Indian fiction - 21st century. Canadian fiction - 21st century. Families - India - Mumbai - Fiction. Parkinson's disease - Patients - Fiction. Reminiscing in old age - Fiction. Parent and adult child - Fiction. Apartment houses - Fiction. Stepfamilies - Fiction. Older men - Fiction. Parsees - Fiction. Bombay (India) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction. Mumbai (India) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction. Bombay (India) - Fiction. Mumbai (India) - Fiction. Modern fiction. Fiction / General. Fiction / Literary. Domestic fiction ; Stepfamilies ; Parent and adult child ; Older men ; Bombay (India) ; Reminiscing in old age ; Apartment houses. Parkinson's disease - Patients. Genres; Domestic fiction. Novel. ISBN: 057120421x.

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