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Swimming Lessons Overview
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
"A fine collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Swimming Lessons Features
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Fiction
Product Details
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | February 11, 1997 |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Contributor(s) | Rohinton Mistry |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Page Count | 256 |
| ISBN 10 | 067977632X |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679776321 |
Dimensions and Weight
| Product Weight | 213.2 grams |
| Product Dimensions | 20.3 cm x 13.4 cm x 1.5 cm |
Editorial Reviews
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Skillfully interwoven into stories about the apartment inhabitants' domestic strivings are fearsome glints of the outside world: communal strife, dowry murders, color prejudice. . . . Mr. Mistry's ability through antic humor and compassion to make the repellent--or, at the very least, sad--story material of Firozsha Baag life-affirming, even ebullient, is astonishing given the horrifyingly stunted lives he depicts. In part, the author's success at leaving the reader with a sense of community and of life's bounty, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, comes from his facility in creating a feeling of flow and unfolding. The densely packed hive that is Firozsha Baag has a pulse that belies the trapped lives of its individuals. --
The New York Times Book Review, Hope Cooke
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