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Such a Long Journey is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other awards. In 2010 the book made headlines when it was withdrawn from the University of Mumbai 's English syllabus after complaints from the Maharashtrian politician Aditya Thackeray .
Jan 1, 1991 · It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him.
One middle-class Indian’s day-to-day struggles and lifelong grief mirror the entire nation’s predicament and too the Parsi view of the world.
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May 3, 1997 · Such a Long Journey. Rohinton Mistry. McClelland & Stewart, May 3, 1997 - Fiction - 352 pages. It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working...
Nov 20, 2008 · Such a Long Journey is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which...
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling.
