num_pages: 434
description: Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs.Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power.
language: English
title: Family Matters
titlecomplete: Family Matters
genres: Asia, Canada, Literary Fiction, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, India, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 23345
places: Mumbai
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Vintage Books