Rohinton Mistry
Description
Tales from Firozsha Baag is the acclaimed collection of linked stories by the award-winning author of Such a Long Journey. "Patterns of life are selfi
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sh and unforgiving," explains Nariman Hansotia, the resident storyteller of Firozsha Baag. And in these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry opens our eyes and out hearts to the rich, complex patterns of life inside this Bombay apartment building. The occupants -- from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najamai, the only owner of a refridgerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon, all the way to Kersi, the young boy whose life threads through the book and who narrates the final story, "Swimming Lessons," as an adult in Toronto -- all express, knowingly or unknowingly, the tensions between the old world and the new. Nothing is hidden; we see their passions, their worst fears, their betrayals, and their humorous acts of revenge. Compassionate and funny in turns, Tales from Firozsha Baag illuminates the very meaning of change through this pungent and exuberantly texture mosaic of lives.
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