Book description
In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry reveals the
rich, complex patterns of life inside a Bombay apartment building.
The occupants - from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najami, the
only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the
Curmudgeon and Kersi, the boy whose life threads through the book -
all express, knowingly or unknowingly, the tensions between the past
and the present, between the old world and the new.
Compassionate and extremely funny, Tales from Firozsha Baag
illuminates the meaning of change through the brilliantly textured
mosaic of seemingly ordinary lives.
'Mistry's joyful notation of the world reminds us that description
is one of fiction's first and gravest tasks.' Guardian
'A fine collection . . . the volume is informed by a tone of
gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives.' New York
Times
Rohinton Mistry is the author of a collection of short stories, Tales
from Firozsha Baag (1987), and three novels that were all shortlisted
for the Booker Prize: Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1996),
and Family Matters (2002). His fiction has won, among other awards, the
Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (twice), The Los Angeles Times
Award, The Giller Prize, The Governor-General s Award, and the Royal
Society of Literature s Winifred Holtby Award. In translation, his work
has been published in over twenty-five languages. Born in Bombay,
Rohinton Mistry has lived in Canada since 1975.
