Rohinton Mistry
Faber and Faber, London, 2002
Rs 750
Mistry's eagerly anticipated third novel goes back to the author's vintage territory-Parsis in Mumabi, their fragmented families and tenuous communities. An old Parsi widower and patriarch is haunted by memories of the past. A broken ankle sets into motion a series of events-a great unravelling and a revelation of the family's lovelorn past-that leads to the narrative's final outcome.