by Rohinton Mistry · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679738718
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«Such a Long Journey» is the novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by Vintage in paperback (339 pages, in English).
Set in Bombay in 1971, it tells the story of Gustad Noble, a bank employee and family man who watches his life fall apart. A letter from an old friend drags him into what seems a heroic mission, and he ends up entangled in a web of deceit, against the backdrop of the war between India and Pakistan that would give rise to Bangladesh.
First novel by Rohinton Mistry, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of Canada's Governor General's Award.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and historical fiction set in India.
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.
