by Rohinton Mistry · Faber And Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571215539
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«Family Matters» is the contemporary fiction novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by Faber And Faber in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower with Parkinson's, lives with his stepchildren in Bombay. As his health worsens, he moves in with his daughter Roxana, her husband Yezad, and their children; the new responsibility leads Yezad to devise a deception that reveals the family's romantic past.
The novel was originally published in 2002; this edition is from 2003. The cover announces it as a finalist for the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
A work for readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in family dramas.
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his three novels was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. All have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society.
