Nominerad till Booker-priset 2002 Family Matters is Rohinton Mistry?s eagerly anticipated third novel, following the success of his highly acclaimed A Fine Balance (1995), which won several major literary awards internationally. This new novel takes us to Bombay in the mid-1990s. Nariman Vakeel is a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower and the patriarch of a small discordant family. Beset by Parkinson?s disease and haunted by memories of the past, he lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren ? Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her brother, Jal, mild-mannered and acquiescent. When Nariman?s illness is compounded by a broken ankle, Coomy plots to turn his round-the-clock care over to Roxana, his sweet-tempered sister. She succeeds, but not without cost, and eventually Nariman takes up residence with Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two young...
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