The Resource Family matters, Rohinton Mistry
Family matters, Rohinton Mistry
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The item Family matters, Rohinton Mistry represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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The item Family matters, Rohinton Mistry represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage International edition.
- Extent
- 431 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375703423
- Label
- Family matters
- Title
- Family matters
- Statement of responsibility
- Rohinton Mistry
- Subject
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- Apartment houses -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- India -- Mumbai
- Mumbai (India) -- Fiction
- Older men
- Older men -- Fiction
- Parent and adult child
- Parent and adult child -- Fiction
- Parkinson's disease -- Patients
- Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction
- Apartment houses
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
- Stepfamilies
- Stepfamilies -- Fiction
- Reminiscing in old age
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- CWR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mistry, Rohinton
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Parkinson's disease
- Reminiscing in old age
- Parent and adult child
- Apartment houses
- Stepfamilies
- Older men
- Apartment houses
- Older men
- Parent and adult child
- Parkinson's disease
- Reminiscing in old age
- Stepfamilies
- Mumbai (India)
- India
- Label
- Family matters, Rohinton Mistry
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1795507
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage International edition.
- Extent
- 431 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375703423
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780375703423
- (OCoLC)53619912
- Label
- Family matters, Rohinton Mistry
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1795507
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage International edition.
- Extent
- 431 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375703423
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780375703423
- (OCoLC)53619912
Subject
- Apartment houses -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- India -- Mumbai
- Mumbai (India) -- Fiction
- Older men
- Older men -- Fiction
- Parent and adult child
- Parent and adult child -- Fiction
- Parkinson's disease -- Patients
- Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction
- Apartment houses
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
- Stepfamilies
- Stepfamilies -- Fiction
- Reminiscing in old age
Genre
Included in
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2002
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2003
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2002
- trueCanadian Authors Association Literary Awards: MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction
- trueKiriyama Prize: Fiction category
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2002
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