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Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
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Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Parent and adult child -- Fiction.
Apartment houses -- Fiction.
Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
Older men -- Fiction.
Bombay (India) -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Parent and adult child -- Fiction.
Apartment houses -- Fiction.
Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
Older men -- Fiction.
Bombay (India) -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Family
matters
/ Rohinton Mistry.
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Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
M&S ; Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Call #:
FICTION MIS
Subjects
Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Parent and adult child -- Fiction.
Apartment houses -- Fiction.
Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
Older men -- Fiction.
Bombay (India) -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780771061271 (hc.)
Description:
487 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
This novel takes us to Bombay in the mid-1990s. Nariman Vakeel is a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower and the patriarch of a small discordant
family
. Beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, he lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When Nariman's illness is compounded by a broken ankle, the need for his round-the-clock care sets in motion a series of events that unravel and reveal the
family
's love-torn past.
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Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Canadian fiction
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