Family Matters

Rohinton Mistry

Original title: Family matters

first published 2001 Goose Lane Editions, 2005 audiobook

"The setting is Bombay, mid-1990s. Nariman Vakeel, suffering from Parkinson's disease, is the elderly patriarch of a small, discordant family. In a building called Chateau Felicity, he and his two middle-aged stepchildren - Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her just-younger brother, Jal, mild mannered and acquiescent - occupy a once-elegant apartment whose ruin is progressing as rapidly as Nariman's disease. Coomy...

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Family Matters ebook · 2008 · Faber and Faber Ltd · 9780571248575
Family Matters audiobook · 2005 · Goose Lane Editions · 9780864923639
Familieanliggender edition · 2003 · Aschehoug · 580 pages
Family matters edition · 2003 · Emblem Editions · 469 pages
Family matters edition · 2002 · Alfred A. Knopf · 431 pages
Et familieanliggende edition · 2002 · Cicero · 430 pages
Family matters edition · 2002 · McClelland & Stewart · 487 pages
Die Quadratur des Glücks edition · 2002 · Krüger · 638 pages
Family matters edition · 2001 · Faber · 487 pages

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