Tales From Firozsha Baag
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571218851 (0571218857)
Publish date: January 1st 2002
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
Modern,
Short Stories,
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