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Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry's 'Family Matters' is exactly what the title suggests, the tiny and significant components that shape a family despite its dysfunctional ambitions.
How responsibility can calmly prevent the growth of passion? How conservativeness is a disorder installed in oriental parenthood? How religious extremism can slaughter innocent lives? How hunger can transform people? How unfortunate is it to perish with rage, without forgiving or being forgiven? How switching perspectives can make life simpler? How efficiently someone can become exactly what he despised? - All these questions were breeding in my mind. And Mistry's beautiful writing answered them with unbiased humility.
Nariman Vakeel's helplessness reminded me of my own grandfather who was bedridden in his last few years. His stepchildren Jal and Coomy Contractor who lived with him had their own share of unfulfillment. Nariman's biological daughter Roxana was blissfully married to Yazad Chenoy, and they had a pleasant family of four with their two boys Murad and Jahangir. Lucy and Yasmin were also two of the principal characters who obliquely impacted the lives of other characters in the novel.
The use of brusque terms in the conversations designed a drama-like air in the fiction. The characters and the events of the three generations are exceptionally raw and homely that you will feel like viewing your own family story, the big little entities of ordinary family time.
This long novel is a slow burn playing on the precise predilections. Give it a read, only if you have the interest to perceive something extraordinary in our mundane family matters.
How responsibility can calmly prevent the growth of passion? How conservativeness is a disorder installed in oriental parenthood? How religious extremism can slaughter innocent lives? How hunger can transform people? How unfortunate is it to perish with rage, without forgiving or being forgiven? How switching perspectives can make life simpler? How efficiently someone can become exactly what he despised? - All these questions were breeding in my mind. And Mistry's beautiful writing answered them with unbiased humility.
Nariman Vakeel's helplessness reminded me of my own grandfather who was bedridden in his last few years. His stepchildren Jal and Coomy Contractor who lived with him had their own share of unfulfillment. Nariman's biological daughter Roxana was blissfully married to Yazad Chenoy, and they had a pleasant family of four with their two boys Murad and Jahangir. Lucy and Yasmin were also two of the principal characters who obliquely impacted the lives of other characters in the novel.
The use of brusque terms in the conversations designed a drama-like air in the fiction. The characters and the events of the three generations are exceptionally raw and homely that you will feel like viewing your own family story, the big little entities of ordinary family time.
This long novel is a slow burn playing on the precise predilections. Give it a read, only if you have the interest to perceive something extraordinary in our mundane family matters.