num_pages: 250
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.
language: English
title: Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
titlecomplete: Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
characters: Kersi, Jehangir, Percy (Rohinton Mistry), rustomjee, nariman hansotia, Mr. Mody, najamai
genres: Asia, Canada, Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Indian Literature, Literature, India, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4280
places: Mumbai
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage International