New Releases by Rohinton Mistry

Handlingen i boka foregår i 1971 i den indiske storbyen Bombay. Vi møter den middelaldrende Gustad Nobel, en alminnelig familiefar med kone og tre barn, som strever med å skape et "anstendig liv" for seg og sine. Selv er han en beskjeden bankfunksjonær, men han har store ambisjoner på sønnens vegne. En tidligere nabo og god venn, major Bilimoria, har forsvunnet på uforklarlig vis. Gustad får et brev fra majoren og blir innblandet i hemmelige og farlige transaksjoner uten å forstå rekkevidden og konsekvensen. Romanen handler om indignasjon og de små anonyme menneskers hjelpeløshet. Men den forteller også om håp, tro, det gode i menneskene og deres evne til å overleve.

Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson’s and haunted by memories of his past. He lives with his two middle-aged stepchildren, Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her brother, Jal, mild-mannered and acquiescent. But the burden of the illness worsens the already strained family relationships. Soon, their sweet-tempered half-sister, Roxana, is forced to assume sole responsibility for her bedridden father. And Roxana’s husband, besieged by financial worries, devises a scheme of deception involving his eccentric employer at a sporting goods store, setting in motion a series of events that leads to the narrative’s moving outcome. Family Matters has all the richness, the gentle humour, and the narrative sweep that have earned Mistry the highest of accolades around the world.

Révélé par le succès de son roman L''Equilibre du monde, l''écrivain Rohinton Mistry occupe une place de premier plan dans la littérature anglo-indienne d''aujourd''hui. On retrouve dans ce récit multiforme son exceptionnel talent de conteur, mêlant avec bonheur l''humour, la tendresse et le sens du tragique pour illustrer à travers l''histoire d''une famille ordinaire la grandeur et la misère de l''humaine condition. Bombay, 1971. Nous sommes à la veille du conflit au Pakistan qui va aboutir à la création du Bangladesh. Gustad Noble, un employé de banque modèle, bon père de famille et honnête citoyen, va voir sa modeste existence bouleversée par une série de tourmentes qui le laisseront pauvre comme Job. Des troubles familiaux d''abord, puis une lettre d''un vieil ami qui lui demande de l''aider à réaliser une mission qu''on pourrait croire héroïque... Des événements dont Gustad ne soupçonne pas l''ampleur et qui marquent pour lui le début d''un long voyage : celui d''un cœur vertueux dans un monde en pleine turbulence. Un roman festif qui va de la grande comédie au portrait de famille profondément touchant. Rohinton Mistry est un vrai cartographe littéraire.

In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry opens our eyes and our hearts to the rich, complex patterns of life inside this Bombay apartment building. The occupants - from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najamai, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the young boy whose life threads through the book - all express the tensions between the past and the present, between the old world and the new.

Autor do aclamado ''Um delicado equilíbrio'', o indiano Rohinton Mistry apresenta um romance ao mesmo tempo cruel e extremamente lírico sobre a natureza humana, sobre os afetos e as disputas que se entrelaçam na vida familiar. Na Bombaim de meados dos anos 90, o viúvo Nariman Vakeel é o patriarca de uma pequena e conturbada família. Sofrendo do mal de Parkinson, vive com seus dois enteados de meia-idade - Coommy, dominadora e amarga, e Jal, tranqüilo e subserviente. Apesar da doença, Nariman insiste em fazer suas caminhadas de fim de tarde numa cidade cada vez mais tumultuada e violenta e acaba sofrendo um acidente nas ruas e quebra o tornozelo. Commy delega a tarefa de cuidar do padrasto convalescente à Roxana, sua meia-irmã. O que Commy não sabe é que isso trará conseqüências inimagináveis para toda a família e revelará um passado repleto de mágoas e paixões adormecidas.

Explores the crowded, throbbing life of India in a collection of stories set in Firozsha Baag, a Bombay apartment building characterized by an unexpected sense of community.

Wederwaardigheden van een aantal mensen uit de lagere Indiase kasten in de tijd dat Indira Ghandi de noodtoestand heeft afgekondigd.

Mosaïque de nouvelles, prenant place dans un immeuble à Bombay au sein d''une communauté parsie, à travers laquelle l''auteur exprime toute la complexité de l''homme, ses contradictions, sa passion de la vie...