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Rohinton Mistry


Born
in Bombay, India
July 03, 1952

Genre
Literary Fiction, Fiction


Rohinton Mistry is considered to be one of the foremost authors of Indian heritage writing in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry belongs to the Parsi Zoroastrian religious minority.

Mistry’s first novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), brought him national and international recognition. Mistry’s subsequent novels have achieved the same level of recognition as his first. His second novel, A Fine Balance (1995), concerns four people from Bombay who struggle with family and work against the backdrop of the political unrest in India during the mid-1970s. The book won Canada’s Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 193,581 ratings · 13,873 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
A Fine Balance
4.37 avg rating — 152,974 ratings — published 1995 — 69 editions
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Family Matters
4.03 avg rating — 24,055 ratings — published 2002 — 73 editions
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Such a Long Journey
3.96 avg rating — 11,233 ratings — published 1991 — 62 editions
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Swimming Lessons and Other ...
3.93 avg rating — 4,438 ratings — published 1987 — 50 editions
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The Scream
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3.54 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Threebies: Rohinton Mistry
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2003
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The Collectors
3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Swimming Lessons
3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The More Important Things
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1989
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Of White Hairs and Cricket
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986
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“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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“...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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