by Rohinton Mistry · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571326273
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«Such a Long Journey» is the novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (339 pages, in English).
Set in Bombay, the novel follows Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family as the war on the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh intrude on their daily lives. Through his decisions and contradictions, the story addresses betrayal and the dilemmas that times of change impose on ordinary people.
Rohinton Mistry's first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991 and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992. This edition belongs to the Faber Modern Classics collection.
For readers of literary and historical fiction with an interest in India, as well as for book clubs seeking novels with political and family undertones.
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.
