Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag

Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag - Vintage International

1st Vintage International Edition

Paperback (11 Feb 1997)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

"A fine collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Book information

ISBN: 9780679776321
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Vintage International Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 250
Weight: 227g
Height: 210mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 15mm