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Apr 25, 2022 · Summary of The Ghost of Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry. The Ghost of Firozsha Baag is a story about a Catholic woman from Goa who works as an ayah ( a maid) for a Parsi family. The protagonist is named Jacqueline but she is called Jaakaylee by everyone.
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Firozsha Baag is a metaphor of entanglement of Parsis. Mistry has given a distorted picture of postcolonial India where toilets are leaky and plaster of wall crumbles. Rustomji says “That stinking lavatory upstairs is leaking again […] plaster from the ceiling had dripped into it” (Mistry, 1987, Pp.6).
Tales From Firozsha Baag is a collection of 11 short stories by Rohinton Mistry about the residents of Firozsha Baag, a Parsi-dominated apartment complex in Mumbai. Mistry's first book, it was published by Penguin Canada in 1987.
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Tales from Firozsha Baag. Rohinton Mistry. McClelland & Stewart, Mar 11, 2011 - Fiction - 256 pages. In these eleven stories, Rohinton Mistry opens our eyes and our hearts to the rich, complex...
Sep 1, 2019 · Rohinton Mistry is one of the central figures of the Indian diaspora involved in the task of constructing alternative narratives of national identity. His texts articulate a new conception of...
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Construction of Home, Nation and Identity in Rohinton Mistry's Tales from Firozsha Baag. Dr. Abu Shahid Abdullah. Rohinton Mistry is one of the central figures of the Indian diaspora involved in the task of constructing alternative narratives of national identity.
