Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag - Couverture rigide

Mistry, Rohinton

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0395498627 ISBN 13 : 9780395498620

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989

Synopsis

Notes; Originally published as: Tales from Firozsha Baag. Ontario : Penguin Books Canada, 1987. Subjects; Bombay (India) - Social life and customs - Fiction.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Rohinton Mistry is the author of a collection of short stories, Tale from Firozsha Baag (1987), and two internationally acclaimed novels. Such a Long Journey (1991) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. A Fine Balance (1995) won the prestigious Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and The Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Award. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. Mistry was the recipient of the 1995 Canada-Australia Literary Prize.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new.

"A fine collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0395498627
• ISBN 13: 9780395498620
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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