FAMILY MATTERS

Anthony ROLLS

ISBN 10: 071235669X / ISBN 13: 9780712356695

Published by British Library, 2017

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This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in in 1933 by Geoffrey Bles. Anthony Rolls is the pseudonym of C E Vulliamy. Read once very carefully. SYNOPSIS: "Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artefacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a husband who will persist in making a fool of himself in public. Their marriage consists of horrible quarrels, futile arguments and incessant bickering. Everything is wrong - and with the entrance of John Harrigal, a bohemian bachelor from London, they take a turn for the worse." Packed weight 350 gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FAMILY MATTERS
• Publisher: British Library
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071235669X
• ISBN 13: 9780712356695
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Family Matters

Review

Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters 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").

Family Matters 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. --Gisele Toueg