Family Matters

First UK edition. 8vo., [viii], 487 pp. Navy blue cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; pale blue endpapers.

Author's third novel. Winner of the 2002 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. An Oprah's Book Club selection. The problems of ageing as seen through the travails of a 79-year old Parsi widower in 1990s Bombay, beset by Parkinson's and haunted by memories of the past.

Mistry had to halt a U.S. book tour for this title in the aftermath of 9/11, as he was repeatedly "targeted by security agents at every airport he visited," on the assumption he was Muslim. "Magnificent... Family Matters could well be one of the finest novels most of us will ever read. It is certainly a masterpiece." –Irish Times