by Rohinton Mistry · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439709695
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«Asuntos de familia» is the novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by Random House in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Bombay and follows Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower with Parkinson's disease, patriarch of a conflicted family. He lives with his stepchildren Coomy and Jal; an ankle fracture worsens his health and Coomy plots for her stepsister Roxana to take care of him, a move that uncovers silenced family matters.
Translation by Aurora Echevarría Pérez. This Spanish edition was published in 2003. The novel was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2002 and won the Kiriyama Prize that same year.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, with an interest in family stories and India as a setting; also for book clubs.
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.
