1. Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry
Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a g...
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- Approx Pages: 19
- Grade Level: Undergraduate
