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| | Family Matters -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Through one family, Mistry conveys everything from the dilemmas among India's Parsis, Persian-descended (Follower of Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism) Zoroastrians, to the wider concerns of corruption and (Loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole) communalism. |
 | | Some of the action takes place in Chateau Facility, a flat inhabited by a 79-year old, (British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)) Parkinson's-stricken Nariman, who is the decaying patriarch and a widower with a small, discordant family consisting of his two middle-aged step children: Coomy (bitter and domineering) and Jal (mild-mannered and subservient). |
 | | In the (A short passage added at the end of a literary work) epilogue, the youngest of all characters, Jehangir, becomes the narrator, describing the metamorphosis that religion, age, death, and wealth bring to his family. |
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