| Swimming Lessons: Swimming Lessons: and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag Contributor(s): Mistry, Rohinton (Author) |
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ISBN: 067977632X ISBN-13: 9780679776321 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1997 Annotation: Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new. "A fine collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96031214 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.28" W x 7.99" (0.47 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new. "A fine collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times |