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Original Title:	Family Matters
ISBN:	037570342X (ISBN13: 9780375703423)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Mumbai(India)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2002), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2003), Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2002), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2003)

Family Matters Paperback | Pages: 500 pages

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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.

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Title	:	Family Matters
Author	:	Rohinton Mistry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Reprint Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 500 pages
Published	:	November 18th 2003 by Vintage (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Canada. Asia. Literature. Contemporary

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I had read this book a long time ago but still remember it as it dealt with a slightly different aspect. This is the story of a Parsi family living in Mumbai as they progress through life. It was like reading through the diary of the family members as it slowly moves towards the end.Maybe I would read it again sometimes to see what has changed with me being 35 now and also my own growth as a reader as well. Well, this was good enough that I remember the book still. Well, Keep on Reading folks.

Yet another masterpiece from Mr. Mistry. Few months back i picked his "A Fine Balance" from the shelf and was mesmerized the way he expresses the events and emotions. The best thing about Rohinton Mistry is he has got the beauty of capturing the little unnoticed experiences of a common mans life. The resemblance he creates is nostalgic. Talking about the book, the literary fiction is set during the time of Babri Masjid fall and rise of Shiv Sena. The politically fouled air and terror among the

"Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy, admiration, pity, irritation, fury, fondness, jealousy, love, disgust. But in the end all human beings became candidates for compassion, all of us, without exception...and if we could recognize this from the beginning, what a saving in pain and grief and misery..."This thought from Yezad (ch 17) sums up his moment of insight in this teeming story of

Rating: 4.5/5This book is not surprisingly about a family. More specifically, it follows three generations of a Parsi family living in modern Mumbai (formerly Bombay). As the grandfather of the family, Nariman is likely the best candidate to be declared the main character of this novel, but it is truly and ensemble cast, with Nariman's step children Jal and Coomy, his daugther and son-in-law Roxanna and Yezda and his grandchildren Janghela and Murad all playing important roles.This is an

beautiful, beautiful and again - beautiful. what an amazing book !!'a fine balance' by the same author is also on my top list, and i'm so glad this one made it there as well. i simply don't have enough words to explain this book ... just read it ... now ... :)

This is an exquisite book. Rohinton Mistry spins a tale of a Zoroastrian family, a story which can be the story of any family anywhere. Nariman Vakeel has a fall, Jal and Coomy his step children, send their father to their half sister Roxanne. Poor Roxanne has a small apartment, has a husband and two children. It is not that Jal and Coomy dislike Roxanne, oh no they do love their sister Roxanne a great deal. Jal and Coomy are just so unhappy, their lives follow a pattern and they hardly have

Well, I read this the whole way through and Steve Urkel didn't appear once, folks.This confirms my suspicion that Rohinton Mistry is one of the finest writers of our time. While I still preferred A Fine Balance of the two stories I've read by him (it was grander in scale), the more intimate Family Matters is still 100 percent 5-star fare with rich, evocative, Dickensian characters, set against the sprawling, corrupt, bustling backdrop of Bombay-soon-to-be-Mumbai, India.When the 79-year-old