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Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new.
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Swimming Lessons, Rohinton Mistry
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Swimming Lessons
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Rohinton Mistry
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN10
- 067977632x
- ISBN13
- 9780679776321
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Short Stories, Asia, India, Canada, Indian Literature
- Original title
- Tales from Firozsha Baag
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new.