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Original Title:	Family Matters
ISBN:	037570342X (ISBN13: 9780375703423)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Mumbai(India)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2002), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2003), Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2002), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2003)

Family Matters

Rohinton Mistry

Paperback | Pages: 500 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 20807 Users | 970 Reviews

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Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs.

Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power.

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Title	:	Family Matters
Author	:	Rohinton Mistry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Reprint Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 500 pages
Published	:	November 18th 2003 by Vintage (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Canada. Asia. Literature. Contemporary

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I have been mulling over my review for this book all day. I ended up really unsure of my feelings about it. I suppose up until the events of the last third I was happy to give this one a ringing endorsement. The titular family matters under discussion are principally the care of the elderly Nariman, afflicted with Parkinsons and a broken ankle he is unceremoniously deposited with his daughters family, the care of whom places enormous strain on an already stretched family budget. This premise

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Flipping through the pages, my heart leapt many times; those waves bearing the ring of countenance were from still stream but the ones with ripples of accusation roared thunder. Accusation? Accusation hurled towards whom? The fictional characters delicately brought to life by the stinging brush of the author or the guilty, manipulative, egocentric, conceited character of mine? Did my fingers pause typing these words defining myself?



It's a classic Rohinton Mistry, nobody expects the man to paint happy little rainbows, but melancholia seeps through the pages of Family Matters. In some ways, it's reminiscent of A Fine Balance, the manner in which characters are affected by events larger than themselves, but manage to trudge along until Mistry decides, in one fell swoop, to unleash all the horrors of hell upon them. In other ways, it's more like Such A Long Journey, with its focus on familial affairs and a (relative) tunnel

I usually feel a little bit of glow after finishing any book. I have the bad habit of calling every book I just finished "my favorite" -- until I finish the next one. But in this case, I really must stress that Family Matters is one of the best books I have ever read. I never re-read books, but this is one of those rare gems that even I want to return to. If you took all of Shakespeare's tragedies, condensed them into a story about one family, and set it in Bombay in the 1990s, this book would

ETA: The only reason I originally gave this three rather than two stars was that:1. it accurately describes the deplorable way we today deal with old age and sickness in MANY countries of the world, and2. not all blame was heaped on the government. People are who they are and unfortunately we often fail in coping with sick and/or elderly in our own family.The book was realistic. In its realism I found it terribly depressing.******************************* All I can say is that this book made me

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