by Rohinton Mistry · RBA La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482644400
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«Afers de familia» is the contemporary novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by RBA La Magrana in paperback (416 pages, in Catalan).
Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, amid religious tensions and economic hardship, it tells the story of Nariman Vakeel, a widowed patriarch of a Parsi family, and his stepchildren Coomy and Jal, in an apartment that deteriorates along with his health. A novel about family, love, memory and obligation.
Number 146 of the Otros La Magrana collection. Finalist for the Premi Llibreter 2003.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in India and in Catalan literature.
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his three novels was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. All have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society.
