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22. The Atlantic | September 2002 | Loss And Endurance | Allen Brooke allen reviews the writing of rohinton mistry Family Matters. by rohinton mistry. Knopf, 439 pages, $26.00 ohinton mistry is not a household name, but or otherwise, now alive. mistry is http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/allen_b.htm

Home Current Issue Back Issues The Archive ... Subscriber Help Browse >> Fiction Food Foreign Affairs Language ... More on books from The Atlantic Monthly. Books Loss and Endurance Rohinton Mistry's tragic and trimphant vision by Brooke Allen Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry Knopf, 439 pages, $26.00 ohinton Mistry is not a household name, but it should be. The fifty-year-old Toronto resident, originally from Bombay, has long been recognized as one of the best Indian writers; he ought to be considered simply one of the best writers, Indian or otherwise, now alive. Mistry is not prolific, but his development has been swift and steady. His first book, Swimming Lessons and Other Stories From Firozsha Baag (1987), was a wryly humorous series of interlocking tales rather in the manner of his countryman R. K. Narayan, or at least identifiable as part of the same gentle fictional tradition. His second, Such a Long Journey Swimming Lessons and Such a Long Journey were the work of a miniaturist, tightly contained within one claustrophobic community. Coming on the heels of these two lovely but essentially regional books, A Fine Balance (1995) was a surprise: panoramic, intensely dramatic, bursting out of the bounds Mistry had previously set for himself. It earned comparisons with the work of Dickens and Tolstoy. This high praise is not exaggerated.

23. Rohinton Mistry Became An Author Almost By Chance The author discusses his novel, 'A Fine Balance'. http://lubbockonline.com/news/062697/rohinton.htm

Rohinton Mistry became an author almost by chance By Mary Mazzocco Knight-Ridder Newspapers Rohinton Mistry thinks carefully before he speaks; his voice is soft, but he can deliver a line with a surprising bite. The Canadian author was a Booker Prize finalist for his latest novel, ''A Fine Balance,'' recently released in paperback (Vintage, $15). It's about four people caught up in India's 1975 state of emergency, when Indira Gandhi suspended many aspects of the constitution in order to hold onto power after being implicated in a scandal. Mistry gradually builds a picture of two tailors, their widowed employer and the college student who is her boarder. It's the antithesis of the Grisham-type thriller, and as the story subtly but powerfully develops, it's hard to remember it isn't reportage. ''People have gotten used to reading more minimalist stuff,'' Mistry says. ''So when they read something like this, with this level of detail, they assume it must be nonfiction. It's amazing how easily we get trained by the conventions of our time.'' Like Dina, the widow in his story, Mistry grew up in a Parsi family in an Indian city by the sea in his case, Bombay, though he is careful not to identify the city in ''A Fine Balance.'' But the book is not autobiography: He left India by ''pure coincidence'' about a month after the state of emergency was declared, to pursue a career in Toronto.

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Lectures Photo: Micheline Rochette Rohinton Mistry November 13, 1995 Winner of the 1995 Giller Prize "He tried to select a chicken for Roshan's birthday. It was hard for him to tell under all those feathers, as the shopkeeper held up bird after bird for inspection. ‘Look at this one, seth, good one, this. See under wing. Spread it, spread it, does not hurt the murgi, not to worry. See, poke here. How thick, how much meat.' Gustad watched, thoroughly confused, squeezing and prodding to pretend he knew what he was doing. But each chicken was very much like the next. When he finally approved one, it was the vocal protestations of the bird, seemingly louder than the others, that made him decide. He would have been the first to admit his inexperience with poultry. The number of times he had been able to afford chicken for his family in the last twenty years, he could count on the fingertips of one hand without using up the digits. Chicken was definitely not his area of expertise." BIOGRAPHY Born in Bombay in 1952, Rohinton Mistry immigrated to Canada in 1975 and was employed in a Toronto bank. He began writing stories in 1983, while attending the University of Toronto, and, soon after, won two Hart House literary prizes and

25. Rohinton Mistry: An Overview rohinton mistry An Overview. Biographical Materials. Biography. Chronology. Critical Reception. Works " The More Important Things." in The Canadian Fiction Magazine, No.65, 1989. Tales From Firozsha http://www.thecore.nus.edu/landow/post/canada/literature/mistry/mistryov.html

Rohinton Mistry: An Overview Biographical Materials Biography Chronology Critical Reception Works "The More Important Things." in The Canadian Fiction Magazine , No.65, 1989 Tales From Firozsha Baag . London, Faber and Faber, 1987 Such A Long Journey . London, Faber and Faber, 1991 A Fine Balance . London, Faber and Faber, 1995. Contextual Materials Political and Social Contexts Mistry's Parsi context The Parsi (Zorastrrian) heritage Gender Matters Girl Power: Mistry's Female Characters Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy Literary Relations Rushdie Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: Fatal Attractions Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy History Mistry's version of the Internal Emergency Theme and Technique Setting Characterization Plot and Structure Genre and Style Rohinton Mistry's Indian Neorealism: The Voice of the People Sexual satire in Mistry Image, Symbol, and Motif Hybridization, Diaspora, Being Between Theme and Subject Mother and Son : Oedipus Wrecks Bibliography and Related Web Resources The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry . Edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya. London: Sangam Books, 1998.

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Rohinton Mistry: An Overview Biographical Materials Biography Chronology Critical Reception Works "The More Important Things." in The Canadian Fiction Magazine , No.65, 1989 Tales From Firozsha Baag . London, Faber and Faber, 1987 Such A Long Journey . London, Faber and Faber, 1991 A Fine Balance . London, Faber and Faber, 1995. Contextual Materials Political and Social Contexts Mistry's Parsi context The Parsi (Zorastrrian) heritage Gender Matters Girl Power: Mistry's Female Characters Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy Literary Relations Rushdie Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: Fatal Attractions Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy History Mistry's version of the Internal Emergency Theme and Technique Setting Characterization Plot and Structure Genre and Style Rohinton Mistry's Indian Neorealism: The Voice of the People Sexual satire in Mistry Image, Symbol, and Motif Hybridization, Diaspora, Being Between Theme and Subject Mother and Son : Oedipus Wrecks Bibliography and Related Web Resources The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry . Edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya. London: Sangam Books, 1998.

27. Rohinton Mistry, "Writer From Elsewhere" Bibliography. mistry, rohinton. The More Important Things. in The Canadian Fiction Magazine, No.65, 1989. mistry, rohinton. Tales From Firozsha Baag. http://www.postcolonialweb.org/canada/literature/mistry/takhar1.html

Rohinton Mistry, "Writer from Elsewhere" Jennifer Takhar [takharjennifer@hotmail.com] This essay has been translated by the author from the original French. Rohinton Mistry is yet another "writer from elsewhere" as Rushdie might put it. Born in Bombay in 1952, of Parsi origin, Mistry emigrated to Canada in 1975. On leaving Bombay, the city which stands so tall in all his writings, Mistry confesses, in the literary journal Rungh (1993) that his departure from India was partly encouraged by the expectations of his peers, especially those of his generation: After finishing college in Bombay or elsewhere in India, one had to go abroad for higher studies. If possible, one had to find a job after finishing a Masters or a Ph.D. in the States or in England, find a job and settle in the country. That's how success is defined by Indians. So that is why I say that coming to Canada was in some ways decided for me. [Quoted in Mehfil, November 1996.] In 1987 Penguin Books Canada published his collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag , which together describe the daily life of the Parsi residents in a Bombay apartment block. The stories concern themselves with the tribulations and the idiosyncrasies of Bombay Parsis.

28. The Toronto Circle - 00.04 Jamie James explains how South Asian writers, now exiled in Canada, are recreating their former worlds. Authors discussed include rohinton mistry, M.G. Vassanji, and Shyam Selvadurai. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/04/james.htm

Go to this issue's Table of Contents. A P R I L 2 In accomplished stories and novels South Asian writers who are exiles in Canada are re-creating the worlds they left behind by Jamie James (The online version of this article appears in two parts. Click here to go to part two. S OME of the finest English-language fiction of our time is being written in Canada. Perhaps the most famous of that country's authors is Michael Ondaatje, the author of The English Patient, who was born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. A writer whose work deserves to be as well known as Ondaatje's is Rohinton Mistry. One of the most important events in my life as a reader was my discovery of A Fine Balance (1995), Mistry's second novel, which is set in an unnamed city that appears to be Bombay, the author's native city, in 1975. This was the year that Mistry emigrated to Toronto and the year that Indira Gandhi proclaimed a state of emergency, setting herself up as India's virtual dictator. The novel has four major characters: two tanners, uncle and nephew, untouchables who flee the caste violence in their village to make a better life for themselves as tailors; a proud middle-aged widow who defies her family in her determination to remain independent; and a dreamy young man from the mountains whose family sends him to study in the city. The four of them meet on page eight, and their lives intertwine with gathering dramatic intensity as the city descends into chaos in a narrative of superb Chekhovian irony spiced with earthy wit. Imagine four fully formed characters! Most of the new American and British novels I see have only one character to whom things happen a shadowy stand-in for the author.

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Rohinton Mistry: An Overview Biographical Materials Biography Chronology Critical Reception Works "The More Important Things." in The Canadian Fiction Magazine , No.65, 1989 Tales From Firozsha Baag . London, Faber and Faber, 1987 Such A Long Journey . London, Faber and Faber, 1991 A Fine Balance . London, Faber and Faber, 1995. Contextual Materials Political and Social Contexts Mistry's Parsi context The Parsi (Zorastrrian) heritage Gender Matters Girl Power: Mistry's Female Characters Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy Literary Relations Rushdie Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: Fatal Attractions Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy History Mistry's version of the Internal Emergency Theme and Technique Setting Characterization Plot and Structure Genre and Style Rohinton Mistry's Indian Neorealism: The Voice of the People Sexual satire in Mistry Image, Symbol, and Motif Hybridization, Diaspora, Being Between Theme and Subject Mother and Son : Oedipus Wrecks Bibliography and Related Web Resources The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry . Edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya. London: Sangam Books, 1998.

32. Mistry, Rohinton --  Encyclopædia Britannica Year in Review 2002 biography mistry, rohinton Encyclopædia Britannica Article. MLA style mistry, rohinton. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=414907

33. Mistry, Rohinton Asterisks indicate multimedia. Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932004. mistry, rohinton. Sex, Male. National Origin, India/Canada. Ethnic Origin, Asian. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/mistry1198-au-

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Mistry, Rohinton Sex Male National Origin India/Canada Ethnic Origin Asian Era Late 20th Century Born Awards Commonwealth Writers Prize (1992), Giller Prize (1995), Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1996) Annotated Works Family Matters

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Rohinton Mistry, "Writer from Elsewhere" Jennifer Takhar [takharjennifer@hotmail.com] This essay has been translated by the author from the original French. Rohinton Mistry is yet another "writer from elsewhere" as Rushdie might put it. Born in Bombay in 1952, of Parsi origin, Mistry emigrated to Canada in 1975. On leaving Bombay, the city which stands so tall in all his writings, Mistry confesses, in the literary journal Rungh (1993) that his departure from India was partly encouraged by the expectations of his peers, especially those of his generation: After finishing college in Bombay or elsewhere in India, one had to go abroad for higher studies. If possible, one had to find a job after finishing a Masters or a Ph.D. in the States or in England, find a job and settle in the country. That's how success is defined by Indians. So that is why I say that coming to Canada was in some ways decided for me. [Quoted in Mehfil, November 1996.] In 1987 Penguin Books Canada published his collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag , which together describe the daily life of the Parsi residents in a Bombay apartment block. The stories concern themselves with the tribulations and the idiosyncrasies of Bombay Parsis.

35. Mistry, Rohinton Family Matters Literature Annotations. mistry, rohinton Family Matters. Genre, Novel (434 pp.). http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/mistry12061-d

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