by Rohinton Mistry · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788497932363
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«Asuntos de familia» is the novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by Debolsillo in hardcover (512 pages, in Spanish).
Rohinton Mistry sets this novel in Bombay and follows Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower with Parkinson's disease, patriarch of a divided family. When a fall worsens his health, his stepdaughter Coomy conspires for her stepsister Roxana to take care of him, and that move uncovers long-postponed family matters.
Hardcover edition from the Best Seller collection. Translation by Aurora Echevarría Pérez. Original title: «Family Matters». Finalist for the Booker Prize in 2002.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in urban India, family relationships, and generational conflicts.
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.
