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	Rohinton Mistry, "Writer from Elsewhere"
		Rohinton Mistry is yet another "writer from elsewhere" as Rushdie might put it.
		What Mistry explores in his stories are the relationships at the heart of this community, their cultural identity and the uniqueness of their community living.
		Mistry expertly marries the major events in India with those in the private sphere of the Noble family and of the other important characters in the novel.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/canada/literature/mistry/takhar1.html (910 words)

	C I C E R O _ C H R . _ E R I C H S E N
		Rohinton Mistry er født i Bombay i 1952.
		Rohinton Mistrys roman, En hårfin Balance, foregår i midten af 70'erne, og Indira Ghandis regime med hårdhændet magtmisbrug indrammer fortællingen om fire højst umage personer, der havner under samme tag i en ydmyg Bombay-lejlighed.
		Rohinton Mistry har modtaget en række litterære priser, blandt andet den danske ALOA-pris - litteraturprisen for bøger fra "de varme lande" - og han har været shortlistet til Booker-prisen for begge sine romaner.
	www.cicero.dk /forfattere/rohinton_mistry.html (273 words)

	Mistry
		Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 in Bombay, India, of Parsi descent.
		Mistry's literature reflects his position as a member of a twice-displaced people, and explores the relationships in the Parsi community in India's troubled historical context (Takhar).
		Mistry presents the outside world as a rotten and corrupting force on even the most decent members of the inner sphere (Ross).
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Mistry.html (861 words)

	Rohinton Mistry
		Born in Bombay, India in 1952, Rohinton Mistry immigrated to Canada in 1975.
		In 2002, Mistry cancelled his United States book tour because he and his wife were targeted by security agents at every airport he visited, apparently because of his "Middle Eastern" appearance.
		Mistry reported that on his first flight of the tour, "we were greeted by a ticket agent who cheerfully told us we had been selected randomly for a special security check.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Rohinton_Mistry.html (264 words)

	Mistry, Rohinton
		Mistry, Rohinton, short-story writer, novelist (b at Bombay, India 3 Jul 1952).
		After graduating in 1973 in mathematics and economics from Bombay University, Rohinton Mistry immigrated 2 years later to Toronto, where he found employment as a clerk in the accounting department of a bank.
		Mistry consistently demonstrates in his fiction that he is a writer who is able to produce both the sharply focused close-ups and broad landscapes of humanity.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0010927&MenuClosed=0 (514 words)

	"Family Matters" by Rohinton Mistry - Salon
		Rohinton Mistry writes sweeping, realist family dramas that recall such 19th century writers as Tolstoy and Dickens.
		One of the best of these books is Mistry's 1995 novel "A Fine Balance," the expansive, devastating story of four people, misfits in their communities, finding solace together while battling to survive during the "emergency" Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared in 1975, a period of intense repression against dissidents and the poor.
		Mistry's newest novel, "Family Matters," isn't as resonant or as powerful as "A Fine Balance" -- few books are -- but it's moving all the same, occasionally achieving an incandescent tenderness that never lapses into bathos.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/10/10/mistry/index.html (1061 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Fine Balance: A Novel: Livres en anglais: Rohinton Mistry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The setting of Mistry's quietly magnificent second novel (after the acclaimed Such a Long Journey) is India in 1975-76, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, defying a court order calling for her resignation, declares a state of emergency and imprisons the parliamentary opposition as well as thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and journalists.
		From the Toronto-based Mistry (Such a Long Journey, 1991), a splendid tale of contemporary India that, in chronicling the sufferings of outcasts and innocents trying to survive in the ``State of Internal Emergency'' of the 1970s, grapples with the great question of how to live in the face of death and despair.
		Though Mistry is too fine a writer to indulge in polemics, this second novel is also a quietly passionate indictment of a corrupt and ineluctably cruel society.
	www.amazon.fr /Fine-Balance-Novel-Rohinton-Mistry/dp/product-description/0679446087 (1402 words)

	Rohinton Mistry, "Writer from Elsewhere"
		Rohinton Mistry is yet another "writer from elsewhere" as Rushdie might put it.
		What Mistry explores in his stories are the relationships at the heart of this community, their cultural identity and the uniqueness of their community living.
		Mistry expertly marries the major events in India with those in the private sphere of the Noble family and of the other important characters in the novel.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /canada/literature/mistry/takhar1.html (910 words)

	Reading by Rohinton Mistry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in Bombay in 1952, Rohinton Mistry immigrated to Canada in 1975 and was employed in a Toronto bank.
		Rohinton Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, both creates a vivid picture of Indian family life and culture and tells a story rich in subject matter, characterization and symbolism.
		Mistry's descriptive, layered account of the personal lives of these characters, as they are influenced by the country's political turmoil, makes for an engrossing novel of epic stature.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /3/8/t8-2006-e.html (598 words)

	Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry, published by
		Central to Rohinton Mistry's story is Nariman's son-in-law Yezad who, unable to cope with the cramped living conditions and the financial strain of having an extra mouth to feed, hatches doomed plans to raise money to fill the almost-empty envelopes Roxana keeps in a drawer from which to pay the family expenses.
		Rohinton Mistry's two earlier novels Such A Long Journey and A Fine Balance were both shortlisted for Booker Prizes.
		With deceptive simplicity, Mistry draws his fine balance between scepticism and affirmation, faith and bigotry, family nurture and control.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books/11familymatters.htm (1580 words)

	Rohinton Mistry : Family Matters : Book Review
		Indeed, Mistry is the recipient of the 2002 Kiriyama award for his new novel's contribution to understanding of Pacific Rim and South East Asian cultures.
		In a recent NPR interview, Mistry states that he has never taken care of a dying parent - surprising after reading the details and humanity of Nariman's Parkinson's disease - but relates that having elderly and dying family members in close contact is a way of life when one grows up in India.
		Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India in 1952, of Parsi descent.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/mistry.htm (1085 words)

	Rohinton Mistry at AllExperts
		Rohinton Mistry (born 3 July, 1952) is considered to be one of the foremost authors of South Asian origin writing in English.
		Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is originally of Indian origin, and belongs to the Parsi Zoroastrian religious minority.
		In 2002, Mistry cancelled his United States book tour for his novel "Family Matters" (2002) because he and his wife were targeted by security agents at every airport he visited, apparently because of his appearance.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/rohinton_mistry.htm (584 words)

	Centre for Language and Literature - Canadian Writers - Rohinton Mistry - Athabasca University
		Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on July 3, 1952.
		Mistry eventually returned to university, finishing a degree in English and philosophy in 1984 at the University of Toronto.
		Mistry's fiction deploys a precise writing style and a sensitivity to the humour and horror of life to communicate deep compassion for human beings.
	www.athabascau.ca /writers/rmistry.html (615 words)

	Rohinton Mistry : Family Matters : Book Review
		Indeed, Mistry is the recipient of the 2002 Kiriyama award for his new novel's contribution to understanding of Pacific Rim and South East Asian cultures.
		In a recent NPR interview, Mistry states that he has never taken care of a dying parent - surprising after reading the details and humanity of Nariman's Parkinson's disease - but relates that having elderly and dying family members in close contact is a way of life when one grows up in India.
		Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India in 1952, of Parsi descent.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /world/mistry.htm (1085 words)

	Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mistry clearly seeks to create a family realism, a narrative of a community inside a larger India, and the social and political context is the mechanism of individual change.
		The celebrity status enjoyed by Mistry after A Fine Balance was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club, closely followed by the publication of Family Matters, invites assessment of Mistry's importance as a Canadian and a postcolonial author.
		Mistry is too accomplished as a writer to produce a bad novel, but Family Matters raises questions about the position Mistry occupies in a literary milieu that prefers non-realist writing.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/714/714_review_kanaganayakam.html (1472 words)

	Interview \| Rohinton Mistry
		Determined that this interview, which had undoubtedly gotten off to a less than sterling start, be a good one, I finally began and, though Mistry is a shy and initially quiet subject, he warmed up quickly and dazzled me frequently with his brilliance and quiet wit.
		Like Mistry himself, the main characters in Family Matters are Parsi, members of a fringe religious community in India who follow the faith as laid down by the prophet Zoroaster.
		Mistry says that Family Matters is "not autobiographical." Though the story takes place in Bombay, many of the challenges the main characters face are universal, the resolutions they come to sharply and recognizably human: You don't have to be Parsi or Indian to identify with his characters and the dilemmas they face.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/mistry.html (1406 words)

	Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
		Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey is a fascinating book, a deserving winner of several prizes: the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and the SmithBook/Books in Canada First Novel Award.
		Rohinton Mistry excels at creating sympathetic and memorable characters, not just the central figure of Gustad, but the supporting cast of family and friends.
		Tehmul is a figure both comic and tragic, and throughout the novel Mistry mingles humour and tragedy in his depiction of lives in modern India.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9900/issue12/entertainment/book4.html (515 words)

	Rohinton Mistry
		Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India in 1952.
		Mistry’s fiction is rooted in the streets of Bombay, the city he left behind for Canada at the age of twenty-three.
		Mistry’s affectionate, thumb nail sketches bring together the lives of miserly Rustomji, the deranged Jaakaylee and Pesi, who is able to look up girls’ skirts with the aid of his torch.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth73 (1152 words)

	Buchkritik: Rohinton Mistry - Das Gleichgewicht der Welt (deutsch)
		Rohinton Mistry beginnt seine Geschichte im Jahre 1975 und führt sie mit nur vier Hauptcharakteren über 860 Seiten bis ins Jahr 1984 fort.
		Rohinton Mistrys Roman ist ein politik- sowie gesellschaftskritisches Werk.
		Mistry beschreibt sowohl die chaotischen Zustände während der indischen Staatsgründung 1947 in historischen Rückblicken, als auch die extreme Situation ab dem Ausruf des Ausnahmezustandes 1975 durch Indira Gandhi bis zu ihrem Mord 1984 in Delhi.
	www.indien-netzwerk.de /navigation/kulturgesellschaft/literatur/artikel/r_mistry-gleichgewicht.htm (508 words)

	Rohinton Mistry biography.
		Born in Bombay in 1952, Rohinton Mistry immigrated to Canada in 1975 and was employed in a Toronto bank.
		Rohinton Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, creates a vivid picture of Indian family life and culture as well as tells a story rich in subject matter, characterization and symbolism.
		Mistry skillfully parallels public events involving Indira Gandhi with the misfortunes of the novel's principal characters.
	www.oprah.com /obc/pastbooks/rohinton_mistry/obc_20011130_author.jhtml (301 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Rohinton Mistry - Books: Meet the Writers
		Mistry told the show, “[India] remains my focus and makes it all worthwhile because of the peopletheir capacity for laughter, their capacity to endure.Perhaps my main intention in writing this novel was to look at history from the bottom up.”
		Mistry’s consistent performance as a novelist, and ever growing awareness of his talents among American readers, promises a long and fruitful career.
		Mistry had no ambitions to be a writer until he got to Canada and began taking classes in literature at the University of Toronto.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=982644 (691 words)

	Amazon.de: A Fine Balance.: English Books: Rohinton Mistry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The setting of Mistry's quietly magnificent second novel (after the acclaimed Such a Long Journey) is India in 1975-76, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, defying a court order calling for her resignation, declares a state of emergency and imprisons the parliamentary opposition as well as thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and journalists.
		Mistry describes the life of Dina Dalal, a widow, who refuses to re-marry a man her brother has chosen for her, and cleverly sets about to get into her own business= sewing fashion for an export-firm - in her own flat.
		Rohintry Mistry has written a cleverly imagined novel set in turbulent India of the 1970s and brimming with unforgettable characters whose daily battle against the travails of life honour the toughness of the human spirit.
	www.amazon.de /Fine-Balance-Rohinton-Mistry/dp/0571179363 (1518 words)

	Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
		Yet Mistry's compassionate eye and his ability to focus on the small decencies that maintain civilization, preserve the family unit and even lead to happiness attest to his masterly skill as a writer who makes sense of the world by using laughter, as one of his characters observes.
		Mistry is not just a fiction writer; he's a philosopher who finds meaning -- indeed, perhaps a divine plan -- in small human interactions.
		Mistry's descriptions of Nariman's faltering mind and body are sobering, not least for the impact his failing health has on those around him.
	www.wutheringbites.com /Read/bookpage2.asp?BookID=231 (1703 words)

	Amazon.ca: Family Matters: Books: Rohinton Mistry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mistry's Lear is Nariman Vakeel, an elderly widower of the Parsi minority, who lives with his two middle-aged stepchildren, the embittered Coomy and her decent but spineless sister, Jal.
		Under the guise of a simple breakage, Mistry is able to develop a story of larger-scale upheavals; the simple splintering in the nuclear family (the microcosm) signals the unraveling of the larger community.
		Mistry is a great writer because his characters are so well developed, you can feel them; and there is always something redeeming in each character and some empathy to be found for even the most vile characters in his stories.
	www.amazon.ca /Family-Matters-Rohinton-Mistry/dp/0771061277 (1528 words)

	Tales from Firozsha Baag, Rohinton Mistry Criticism and Essays
		In the volume, Mistry particularly focuses on the Parsi, or Parsee, community, a small religious minority that traces its roots to Zorostrianism and ancient Persia.
		By examining the Parsi culture through a combination of sympathy and criticism, Mistry analyzes the conflicts that arise among Parsi individuals both in Indian society, where they are often excluded by the predominant Hindu and Muslim populations, and in Western nations.
		Mistry's short fiction has been favorably compared to such prominent Indian writers as V. Naipaul and R. Narayan, as well as to James Joyce's seminal collection of short fiction Dubliners.
	www.enotes.com /short-story-criticism/tales-from-firozsha-baag-rohinton-mistry (671 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Family Matters: Books: Rohinton Mistry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rohinton Mistry takes us to the heart of what it is to live within a family.
		Mistry writes in such a way that it becomes important to the reader as to what happens to each person he has created and we are not spared their individual pains or their collective triumphs.
		Mistry's dialogue, the subtle and not-so-subtle undercurrents it reflects, the often humorous interactions, the honest but naïve motivations of some of the characters, and the meticulously depicted and subtle decline of the family are the work of a master.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Family-Matters-Rohinton-Mistry/dp/0571194273 (2056 words)

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