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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely p ...Show more
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
32.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, ...Show more
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
23.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Fiction Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
A novel set in India during the Emergency, by the author of "Such a Long Journey". In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, two tailors and a young student struggle to put together a new life of sorts amid the crisis, and in the course of doing so encounter a vivid cast of characters.
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad ...Show more
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This story centres on a 79-year-old Parsi widower named Nariman who lives with his stepson and stepdaughter. Nariman's wife died many years before, leaving behind the two children from her first marriage and the daughter, Roxanna, they had together. (Preceeding text courtesy www.faber.co.uk) Trade Paper ...Show more
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
24.99 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: General Fiction
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad ...Show more
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reason ...Show more
Such a Long Journey (Out of Print) by Rohinton Mistry
24.95 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry reveals the rich, complex patterns of life inside a Bombay apartment building. The occupants - from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najami, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the boy whose life ...Show more
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