Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful ...
Jede Wohnung im Mietshaus am Firozsha-Platz ist für den jungen Kersi wie eine Zauberschachtel, in der sich Schicksale entfalten, mit anderen verbinden, überraschend kreuzen. Da ist der Rechtsanwalt Rustomji, der durch die Kapriolen seiner Wasserleitung zum Märtyrer seiner Verdauung wurde, aber zu geizig ist, einen Klempner zu organisieren. Da ist Najamai, die den einzigen Kühlschrank des Stockwerks besitzt und den Nachbarn darin Platz einräumt...
Man schreibt das Jahr 1975. Der Ort: Bombay. Hier treffen vier Menschen aufeinander, deren Schicksale im Mittelpunkt des Romans stehen. Dina Dalal, eine Frau Anfang Vierzig und seit fast zwanzig Jahren verwitwet, Maneck Kohlah, ein junger Student aus dem Gebiet des Himalajas, Ishvar Darji, ein unglaublicher Optimist und sein widerspenstiger junger Neffe Omprakash - zwei Schneider, die vor den unerträglichen Verhältnissen auf dem Land in die St...
Bombay 1975. Vier Menschen treffen aufeinander. Ihre Schicksale verknüpft Rohinton Mistry meisterlich zu einem großen Roman. Wir bedgenen Dina Dalal, einer Frau Anfang Vierzig und Maneck Kohlah, einem Studenten aus dem Gebiet des Himalaja, dem unglaublich optimistischen Ishvar Darji und seinem widerspenstigen Neffen, zwei Schneidern, die vom Land in die Stadt geflohen sind.
Seine großen erzählerischen Bögen spannt Misty von den grünen Tälern d...
Set in mid-1970s India, 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 political yet rich with local delight.
Ein großer Familienroman über das moderne Indien
Gustad Noble wohnt mit seiner Familie in einem Wohnblock am Rande von Bombay. Er ist mittlerer Bankbeamter, gläubiger Parse, besorgter Vater und ein treuer Freund. Seine Familie steht im Mittelpunkt von Rohinton Mistrys Roman, der einfühlsam und humorvoll das Leben der Menschen in der indischen Metropole schildert. Im Schicksal von Gustad spiegelt sich die ganze zeitgenössische Gesellschaft Indi...
Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people of Firozsha Baag as we are with our own neighbours.
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. This sets in motion a series of events - a great unravelling and a revelation of the family's love-torn past, that leads to the narrative's final outcome.
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 reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first s...
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste...
Quando simboli e immagini abbondano così tanto, costellando la pagina o presentandosi uno dopo l'altro su di essa, senza insidia né artificio, si è portati a dire: com'è ovvio, com'è evidente. I simboli, dopo tutto, dovrebbero essere immobili e lievi come minuscole gocce di rugiada, e tuttavia brillare di un mondo di significati.