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Tales from Firozsha Baag
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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. The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly captured in this series of stories.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #831890 in Books
- Published on: 2006-10-19
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Tales from Firozsha Baag is Rohinton Mistry's best, but least-known, book. Other strengths aside, Mistry is plodding as a novelist. Here, in this collection of interrelated short stories, Mistry is at his most natural, showing us the actions and thoughts of characters while never condescending to tell us their theme or import. Each of the 11 linked stories is set in a different apartment in the shared Firozsha Baag (Fur-oh-shaw Bog) complex, where more than cooking odours and telltale noises travel from apartment to apartment. Joggers visible out a window in "The Collectors" later become inspiration, liberation and, arguably, temptation for young Jehangir in the aching "Exercisers."
In Mistry's dexterous hands, the apartment complex is not just a clever device for uniting stories that made their debuts independently in Canada's best literary magazines. Firozsha Baag is a gossamer antenna tuned to the barely detectable human stories haunting our peculiar spaces: "No ayah [nanny/maid]," Mistry knows, "gets key to a flat. It is something I have learned, like I learned forty-nine years ago that life as ayah means living close to floor. All work I do, I do on floors.... Food also is eaten sitting on floor, after serving them at dining-table." A uniquely accomplished first book. --Darryl Whetter
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"'One of India's finest living novelists.' Observer"
From the Back Cover
“A writer of formidable strength and imagination…these stories are like little bits of life glistening on the page.”
–Toronto Star
“A fine collection…informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives.”
–New York Times
“The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly captured in this series of stories.…”
–Sunday Times, London (U.K.)
“Rohinton Mistry explores quicksand territory with intelligence, compassion, wit, and memorable flair.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
