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560 reviews
Rohinton Mistry

Methuen Drama, 2008

"A Fine Balance Between Hope and Despair"
One of the most captivating of the books I've read this month, "A Fine Balance" brilliantly captures the essence of a poverty-stricken city within a politically unstable India of the 1970s. The story is set mostly during the two-year State of Emergency (comparable to martial law), which began in 1975 when protests against the government were used as an excuse for the prime minister to hold on to ...

Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry

Bookclub-In-A-Box, 2005

Discusses the novel, "Family Matters".

SUCH A LONG JOURNEY

44 reviews
ROHINTON MISTRY

Alfred A. Knopf, 1991

Much finer than "A Fine Balance"
Unlike many of the other reviewers, I was disappointed with "A Fine Balance," which I read after this book. I thought it was trite, melodramatic and, in the end, depressing -- all of which, of course, made it a prime book to be chosen for "Oprah," though I admit it was a fast read. But to what avail, if you don't like the book? I got rid of my copy as soon as I could. By contrast, I've read ...

Family Matters

59 reviews
Rohinton Mistry

Faber and Faber, 2006

Human Matters
I was initially attracted to Rohinton Mistry's fine novel "Family Matters" (2002) because its central characters are adherents of the Zoroastrian (Parsee) religion living in Bombay. Zoroastrianism and its practitioners are rarely treated in fiction. The religion is ancient, one of the world's first monotheistic faiths, and small with a dwindling number of adherents. As emphasized in Mistry's ...

Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses A Fine Balance, the Novel by Rohinton Mistry (Bookclub in a Box)
Rohinton Mistry

Bookclub-in-a-Box, 2005

Discusses the novel, "A Fine Balance".

Swimming Lessons (King Penguin)

12 reviews
Rohinton Mistry

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990

CLASSY WORK OF A MINIATURIST, HARDLY READS LIKE A DEBUT!
And I thought that "A Fine Balance" was Rohinton's best! Yet again, I find myself speechless in my admiration for his astute command of language. His precise and inventive prose never quits until he has portrayed an image in sentences. Images that I grew up with myself but never quite would have thought of expressing in the grippingly sensitive way he can. Swimming Lessons is a collection of ...

Tales From Firozsha Baag

3 reviews
Rohinton Mistry

South Asia Books, 1993

Tales from Firozsha Baag is Swimming Lessons
This is a fine collection of early short stories, but note that it was reprinted in the U.S. as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag; so if you have one book, you don't need the other.