- Booker Prize 2002 · Shortlist
Family Matters
Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952)
English editions
Written in EnglishFamily Matters
Vintage · United States · 18 November 2003 · Paperback · 448 pages
Family Matters
Alfred A. Knopf · United States · 1 October 2002
Family Matters
McClelland & Stewart · Canada · 2002 · 487 pages
Family Matters
Faber and Faber · United Kingdom · 2007 · 512 pages
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Nariman Vakeel, a retired professor of seventy-nine with Parkinson's disease, lives with his stepchildren Coomy and Jal in their roomy Bombay flat in the ironically named Chateau Felicity. When he breaks his ankle they refuse to nurse him and move him to the cramped home of his own daughter, Roxana, who lives there with Yezad and their boys. Roxana bears the new burden patiently, while Yezad, desperate to give his family more, is tempted towards gambling and crooked schemes, and their elder son learns to exploit his position at school. In flashbacks Nariman relives the error that shaped his life: giving up the Catholic woman he loved to marry, under family pressure, a Parsi widow.
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- Novel
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- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India
- First published
- 2002
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
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9780375403736 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)
9780771061271 (McClelland & Stewart, Canada)
9780375703423 (Vintage, United States)
9780571230556 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)
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