by Rohinton Mistry
It is said that when the British left India, they gifted their mannerism to the Parsis. I do not know the authenticity of such whimsical statements, although I have never seen any community with such great degree of clear-cut decorum. Parsi is a Persian Zoroastrian ethnic community; a minority in th...
A collection of interconnected stories about the tenants of an apartment block. The first story features a couple who have some maintenance issues in their apartment that result in physical discomfort and logistical inconvenience, and then the story winds out into a public humiliation, a frustrated...
A paired look at Werewolves in Their Youth and Tales from Firozsha Baag by Mistry.I chanced upon these back to back, both short story collections both by writers in their working youth – Mistry’s first book and an early one for Chabon.Both as much as anything nostalgic, bittersweet recollections of ...