false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175613965m/535293.jpg 19661 19 Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry's <I>Family Matters</I> depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson's disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character's reaction to this situation, from Roxanne's husband's struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman's tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different").<p> <I>Family Matters</I> is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family's history. In a poetic style rich with detail, Mistry creates a world where fate dances with free will, and the results are often more familiar than anyone would ever care to admit. <I>--Gisele Toueg</I> 1435094 2002 Family Matters total:1380|5:344|4:606|3:357|2:61|1:12| 1380 5349 2046 169 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 1 false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 11:10:38 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 14:22:05 -0800 2008
This book is not surprisingly about a family. More specifically, it follows three generations of a Parsi family living in modern Mumbai (formerly Bombay). As the grandfather of the family, Nariman is likely the best candidate to be declared the main character of this novel...more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 16:19:17 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 20:27:52 -0800 2007 Family Matters is one of the best books I have ever read. I never re-read bo...more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 3 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 09:44:58 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 09:44:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Jul 25 19:59:36 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 19:59:49 -0700 2009 conflicts, its misunderstandings, its jealousies, and unexpected moments of redeeming love. India, his setting, seems to make
everything feel bigger and more important, both hopeless and hopeful....more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 23 18:25:57 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 20:01:23 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Apr 07 23:39:53 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 23:40:50 -0700 2009 Once more...]]> 2455456 0571207634 9780571207633 14 2 3.88 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2455456.Family_Matters 4 0 false Tue Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Jan 13 18:41:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 18:42:54 -0800 2009
Nariman Vakeel, an elderly non-practising Zoroastrian, is gradually growing more infirm. This tale follows Nariman's journey towards death and how his family reacts to him and the concept of illness and decay. A fascinating novel and educational ...more...]]> 522474 0571194273 9780571194278 68 14 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175516709m/522474.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522474.Family_Matters 4 0 false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 04:38:24 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 05:01:53 -0700 2009 Rohinton Mistry. The title has, of course, a double entendre: family is important, but events in a family have a impact on it. And that's what happens in this book: a father's past interferes with his children's present. It changes the way th...more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 08:37:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 09:43:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 4 0 false Sun Jan 25 05:10:52 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 06:55:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 3 0 false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 21 09:11:40 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:11:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 1 false Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Sep 18 13:05:19 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 13:07:12 -0700 2007 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Aug 21 01:12:33 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 18:15:40 -0700 2009 Family Matters, set in modern day Bombay, is a big, sprawling, panoramic novel that’s absolutely Dickensian in scope and detail. It’s rich and it’s human and, like all things human, it’s flawed...but just a little, and one gets the idea that somehow, its flaws only serve...more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 12:49:29 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 08:40:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 5 0 false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 05 07:38:48 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 08:02:02 -0800 2009
In this novel Mistry tackles the issue of family; a Parsi family coping and st...more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 4 0 false Sun Apr 19 09:00:27 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 09:07:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2455456 0571207634 9780571207633 14 2 3.88 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2455456.Family_Matters 4 0 false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 12:12:41 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 09:11:14 -0700 2008 Family Matters I felt the opposite. I really had to push myself through the middle, but enjoyed the ending. The conclusion is realistic, consistent with the overall tone and message of the book, and suff...more...]]> 19661 037570342X 9780375703423 1208 144 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167274864m/19661.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters 4 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 08:13:54 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 10:05:28 -0800 2007
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