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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 In 2010 the book made headlines when it was withdrawn from the University of Mumbai 's English syllabus after complaints from the Maharashtrian politician Aditya Thackeray .
- Rohinton Mistry
- 1991
Jan 1, 1991 · 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. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours.
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Such a Long Journey, written by Canadian-Indian author Rohinton Mistry, follows Gustad Noble as he navigates interpersonal conflict and political scandal in early 1970s India. Indira Gandhi’s corrupt government and India’s war with Pakistan provide the story’s political backdrop.
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.
A novel by Rohinton Mistry about the impact of the war in the Indian subcontinent on a Bombay family. Read the book description, customer reviews, and buy the paperback or Kindle edition online at Amazon.in.
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- Rohinton Mistry
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Jun 2, 1992 · Like his other books, Such a Long Journey deals with family: both blood family and family in the looser sense as community, sometimes beloved, sometimes despised. And it deals with government, corruption and war, primarily through the lens of one family: the Nobles.
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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...
