Written in English
Sahitya Akademi 2015 · Winner
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
Cyrus Mistry · 56 when first published
Novel · 247 pages · Love, Historical
AI-generated summary:In Bombay before independence, the son of a Parsi priest gives up his family’s standing to marry the daughter of a corpse bearer, and takes up the shunned work of carrying the dead to the Towers of Silence.