Description
Book SynopsisThis study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to produce his distinctive postcolonial fictions. -- .
Trade Review"Peter Morey's work is an efficient effort to convey the symbolic complexity of Mistry's fiction and the book will serve as an invaluable handbook and entry point for students wishing to research the writer " Mala Pandurang, Wasafiri
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Series Editor's Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
1. Contexts and intertexts
2. 'Throbbing between two lives': The structures of migration in Tales from Firozsha Baag
3. Mistry's hollow men: Language, lies and the crisis of representation in Such a Long Journey
4. Thread and circuses: Performing in the spaces of city and nation in A Fine Balance
5. Running repairs: Corruption, community and duty in Family Matters
6. Critical overview
7. Conclusion - Rohinton Mistry: International man of stories
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
