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Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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'A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius.' IndependentIndia, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever. An epic panorama of modern India in all its corruption, violence, and heroism, A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's prize-winning masterpiece: a Dickensian modern classic brimming with compassion, humour, and insight - and a hymn to the human spirit in an inhuman state.'A masterpiece of illumination and grace. Like all great fiction, it transforms our understanding of life.' Guardian'Magical.' New York Times'Monumental.' Time'Astonishing.' Wall Street JournalWhat readers are saying:'One of the most layered and beautifully executed books I've ever read ... Easily one of my all time favourite books!''Many say that the mark of a good book is that it stays with you; well, I read this several years ago and I still find myself thinking of the characters ... Beautiful.''What a storyteller, what a wide canvas he covers of India ... Wonderful.''One of the best and most entertaining books I have ever read ... I can't recommend it highly enough.''Often heartbreaking, always evocative ... A book to savour rather than to gallop through.''One of the best books I've read ... Not a book for the faint-hearted, but it is a book with a big heart.'
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
258 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2010191 kr
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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.From the Trade Paperback edition.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010221 kr
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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. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like an heroic mission. But he soon finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception. Compassionate, and rich in details of character and place, this unforgettable novel charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010191 kr
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Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs. Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
313 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2006
138 kr
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Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people of Firozsha Baag as we are with our own neighbours. The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly captured in this series of stories.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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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 the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family.It was the brilliant first novel by one of the most remarkable writers to have emerged from the Indian literary tradition in many years. It was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
E-bok
Engelska, 2008120 kr
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'A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius.' Independent'A masterpiece of illumination and grace. Like all great fiction, it transforms our understanding of life.' GuardianIndia, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever. An epic panorama of modern India in all its corruption, violence, and heroism, A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's prize-winning masterpiece: a Dickensian modern classic brimming with compassion, humour, and insight - and a hymn to the human spirit in an inhuman state.'Magical.' New York Times'Monumental.' Time'Astonishing.' Wall Street JournalWhat readers are saying:'One of the most layered and beautifully executed books I've ever read ... Easily one of my all time favourite books!''Many say that the mark of a good book is that it stays with you; well, I read this several years ago and I still find myself thinking of the characters ... Beautiful.''What a storyteller, what a wide canvas he covers of India ... Wonderful.''One of the best and most entertaining books I have ever read ... I can't recommend it highly enough.''Often heartbreaking, always evocative ... A book to savour rather than to gallop through.''One of the best books I've read ... Not a book for the faint-hearted, but it is a book with a big heart.'
E-bok
Engelska, 2008120 kr
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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 the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family.It was the brilliant first novel by one of the most remarkable writers to have emerged from the Indian literary tradition in many years. It was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
E-bok
Engelska, 2008120 kr
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Nariman Vakeel is a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past. He lives with his two middle-aged step-children. When Nariman's illness is compunded by a broken ankle, he's forced to take up residence with his daughter Roxana, her husband Yezad and their two young sons. This new responsibility for Yezad, who is already besieged by financial worries, proves too much and pushes him into a scheme of deception - with devastating consequences.Wise and compassionate, Family Matters has all the richness, the gentle humour and the narrative sweep that have earned Rohinton Mistry the highest accolades.'It is rare to discover a novel in which the characters are so well drawn that you feel wrapped up in their problems, rather than just privy to them.' Independent on Sunday 'A brilliant novel from one of India's finest living novelists.' Observer
E-bok
Engelska, 2008120 kr
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In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry reveals the rich, complex patterns of life inside a Bombay apartment building. The occupants - from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najami, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the boy whose life threads through the book - all express, knowingly or unknowingly, the tensions between the past and the present, between the old world and the new. Compassionate and extremely funny, Tales from Firozsha Baag illuminates the meaning of change through the brilliantly textured mosaic of seemingly ordinary lives. 'Mistry's joyful notation of the world reminds us that description is one of fiction's first and gravest tasks.' Guardian 'A fine collection . . . the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives.' New York Times
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
302 kr
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Ljudbok
Engelska, 2021185 kr
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A compelling dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry''s Booker Prize-nominated novel about India''s underclassIndia, 1975. Desperate to preserve her independence from her abusive brother, Parsi widow Dina Dilal turns her cramped city apartment into a sweatshop. But when her eyesight begins to fail, she hires two tailors - uncle and nephew Ishvar and Om, who have fled from caste violence in their native village. She also takes in a lodger - Maneck, a reluctant student from the mountains.Initially wary of each other, the four strangers soon form a close bond of friendship, loyalty and love. But their lives are about to be turned upside down, for India in the mid-1970s is in a state of crisis, riven by political turmoil and corruption. As Indira Gandhi''s ''Emergency'' measures come into force, civil liberties are suspended and human rights suppressed. In this climate of chaos, violence and injustice, Dina and her makeshift family find themselves struggling to survive and facing an uncertain future...Tragic, comic, poignant and redemptive, this heart-rending drama is a celebration of the human spirit under inhuman conditions. Adapted by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim, it stars Shernaz Patel as Dina, Kenneth Desai as Ishvar, Anand Tiwari as Om and Neil Bhoopalam as Maneck.Production creditsWritten by Rohinton MistryDramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel KarimProduced by Nadir KhanDirected by John DrydenMusic: Sacha PutnamSound Design: Steve BondProduction Manager: Niloufer SagarA Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4CastDina - Shernaz PatelIshvar - Kenneth DesaiOm - Anand TiwariManeck - Neil BhoopalamRustom - Zafar KarachiwalaIbrahim - Rajit KapurThe Thakur - Jayant KripalainiAshraf - Darshan JariwalaNusswan - Farid CurrimRuby - Anahita UberoiNarayan - Vivek MadanYoung Dina - Tirtha KotrialYoung Ishvar - Eshan SavlaYoung Narayan - Samar UraizeeEnsemble - Jim Sarbh, Abhishek Saha, Meherangiz Acharya-Dar, Faezeh Jalali, Shivani Tanksale, Nadir KhanBeggarmaster - Ankur VikalWorm - Namit DasRajaram - Jaimini PathakFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 March-5 April 2015©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
E-bok
Tyska, 2013147 kr
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Das Gleichgewicht der Welt - Ein meisterhaft verwobenes Epos über vier Schicksale im Bombay der 1970er Jahre.Bombay, 1975: In Rohinton Mistrys großem Roman treffen vier Menschen aufeinander, deren Lebenswege sich auf schicksalhafte Weise kreuzen. Da ist Dina Dalal, eine Frau Anfang vierzig, und Maneck Kohlah, ein Student aus dem Gebiet des Himalaja. Und da sind Ishvar Darji, ein unglaublich optimistischer Schneider, und sein widerspenstiger Neffe, die vom Land in die pulsierende Metropole geflohen sind, auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben.Mit großer erzählerischer Kraft entfaltet Mistry ein beeindruckendes Panorama, das von den grünen Tälern des Himalaja bis in die Straßen Bombays reicht. Er erzählt von Rajaram, dem Haarsammler, dem gewieften Bettlermeister, der eine Armee von Bettlern befehligt, und von Mr. Valmik, einem Korrekturleser, der eine kuriose Allergie gegen Druckerschwärze entwickelt. Das Gleichgewicht der Welt erweckt den indischen Subkontinent zum Leben - ein Kosmos, der nur auf den ersten Blick fremd erscheint, und doch voll universeller Wahrheiten über die Suche nach Glück, Liebe und Zugehörigkeit steckt.
E-bok
Tyska, 2015170 kr
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Als geachteter Patriarch der Familie: so würde Nariman Vakeel in Bombay gern seinem Alter entgegensehen. Aber die Harmonie in seiner Familie ist brüchig. Er lebt bei seinen Stiefkindern, die ihm vorwerfen, ihre verstorbene Mutter nie richtig geliebt zu haben. Als er nach einem Unfall gepflegt werden muss, schieben sie ihn zu seiner Tochter Roxana ab, die mit ihrem Mann Yezad und zwei Kindern in einer engen Wohnung lebt. So sehr Roxana ihren Vater liebt, so sehr auch Yezad und die Kinder versuchen, den alten Mann in ihr Leben aufzunehmen, wird die Situation doch zur Belastung - und die Versuche, das Leben zu bewältigen, haben dramatische Folgen. Yezad wird von dem ganz Bombay ergreifenden Lotteriefieber erfasst und verspielt sein knappes Gehalt, dann will er seinen Chef für eine Lokalpolitikerkarriere begeistern, um so selbst befördert zu werden. Nariman flüchtet sich immer mehr in Erinnerungen an seine erste verbotene Liebe zu der Christin Lucy, und Roxana versucht heimlich eine Versöhnung mit den Stiefgeschwistern zu erreichen. Und dann scheint es, als könne alles gut werden.Meisterhaft erzählt Rohinton Mistry die Geschichte einer Familie, deren Konflikte, Nöte und Stärken für jeden unmittelbar berührend sind. Die Vielfalt Bombays und seiner Einwohner, die kulturellen und religiösen Gegensätze des Landes, bilden den farbigen Hintergrund für Mistrys bewegende Erkundung der menschlichen Natur: über das Altern, den Tod und die Geduld, über die Liebe und die Beharrlichkeit der Hoffnung.
E-bok
Tyska, 2015170 kr
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Jede Wohnung im Mietshaus am Firozsha-Platz ist für den jungen Kersi wie eine Zauberschachtel, in der sich Schicksale entfalten, mit anderen verbinden, überraschend kreuzen. Da ist der Rechtsanwalt Rustomji, der durch die Kapriolen seiner Wasserleitung zum Märtyrer seiner Verdauung wurde, aber zu geizig ist, einen Klempner zu organisieren. Da ist Najamai, die den einzigen Kühlschrank des Stockwerks besitzt und den Nachbarn darin Platz einräumt, um genauestens über deren Eßgewohnheiten, finanzielle Krisen und geplante Feste informiert zu sein. Da ist die Dienerin Jaakaylee, die einen Geist entdeckt und so erfolgreich Angst davor hat, daß ihm andere im Haus auch begegnen. Kersi ist zu Hause in dieser Welt, in der jeder jeden kennt, und doch träumt er mit seinen Freunden vom Studium im Ausland. Erst als er tatsächlich im kühlen Wohlstand Kanadas lebt, steigt die Erinnerung an den lebhaften, geräuschvollen, engen, stimmenerfüllten Firozsha-Platz in ihm auf - eine Sehnsucht, die ihn nicht mehr verläßt.Wie in einem kostbaren Gewebe sind die Schicksale der Menschen dieses Hauses verbunden, ein Muster, das sich durch die skurrilen, humorvollen, eigenwilligen und höchst individuellen Figuren erst langsam enthüllt. Von wohletablierten Honoratioren bis zu kleinen Dienstboten, die im Grunde alle nichts Schöneres kennen, als genußvoll die Angelegenheiten ihrer Nachbarn zu diskutieren: Rohinton Mistry zeigt die ganze Fülle Indiens.
E-bok
Tyska, 201357 kr
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Ein großer Familienroman über das moderne IndienGustad Noble wohnt mit seiner Familie in einem Wohnblock am Rande von Bombay. Er ist mittlerer Bankbeamter, gläubiger Parse, besorgter Vater und ein treuer Freund. Seine Familie steht im Mittelpunkt von Rohinton Mistrys Roman, der einfühlsam und humorvoll das Leben der Menschen in der indischen Metropole schildert. Im Schicksal von Gustad spiegelt sich die ganze zeitgenössische Gesellschaft Indiens in ihren Wünschen und Widersprüchen.»Ein reiches, menschliches Buch, zweifellos einer der besten Romane über Indien.« The Spectator
Häftad, Tyska, 1998
259 kr
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