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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely p ...Show more
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, ...Show more
A Fine Balance (Revolutionary Writing) by Rohinton Mistry
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in mid-1970s India, "A Fine Balance" is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely ...Show more
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad ...Show more
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad ...Show more
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. Such a Long Journey is a brilliant first novel by o ...Show more
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reason ...Show more
Such a Long Journey (Faber Firsts) by Rohinton Mistry
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Such a Long Journey" is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. It was shortlisted for the 1991 B ...Show more
Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A series of stories which feature the residents of apartment complex in Bombay, and the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, such as the visits of the egg man, biscuitman and fishwalla, and the rag man's song.
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