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Original Title:	Such a Long Journey
ISBN:	0771098979 (ISBN13: 9780771098970)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sohrab, Roshan, Gustad Noble, Dilnavaz, Dinshawji, Tehmul, Major Bilimoria
Setting:	Mumbai,1971(India) New Delhi(India)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1991), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (1991), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (1992)

Such a Long Journey

Rohinton Mistry

Paperback | Pages: 424 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 9444 Users | 496 Reviews

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Title	:	Such a Long Journey
Author	:	Rohinton Mistry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 424 pages
Published	:	November 3rd 1993 by New Canadian Library (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Historical. Historical Fiction. Canada. Asian Literature. Indian Literature

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It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like an heroic mission. But he soon finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception. Compassionate, and rich in details of character and place, this unforgettable novel charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change.

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While not as good as A Fine Balance, Mistry's first book, Such a Long Journey is an interesting tale about Indira Ghandi's India under Emergency Rule. It follows a single protagonist through a complex and occasionally dangerous landscape. It is interesting but I preferred Rushdie's Midnight's Children about the Emergency and A Fine Balance as a better example of Mistry's writing. Still, it deserves 3-stars as a highly readable story and a Booker prize runner-up.

Since I will have to critically analyse this book for a paper I'm studying this semester, I'll leave the critical thinking part for later. Instead, I'd like to focus on how this book made me feel. Mistry does this thing - he makes sure you're on the verge of crying, and then he says something that almost magically dispels the sadness that would inevitably have resulted in tears. But this book did make me cry in the end, which also means that I loved it. Any book that can make me cry is a good

A better understanding of the political events occurring in the background would have enriched my reading of this, but even without, Mistry was able to catch and hold my attention, weaving layers of story and symbolism together, creating a sometimes farcical, bittersweet domestic tale. I felt like I got to know this group of middle-class Indians and their microcosm of that larger world a little bit better. I certainly got to smell it - from frangipani and sandalwood to rotting garbage and

Such a wonderful book!!

At various points I was reminded of these 3 Calvin and Hobbes strips:The house has been burgled, and while Calvin is able to sleep peacefully with Hobbes as support, his parents find their peace disturbed.****That's almost the story of Gustad, a middle aged man with 3 children, watching them grow up, going through the vagaries of them growing up - a teenager, a pre-teen and a sickly child, and trying hard to hold the whole thing together. Then there are the friends who 'betray' him, friends he



Such an engrossing book...and I learned so much from it! This is the second Mistry book I have read, the first being A Fine Balance. I am in awe of his writing skills and his expansive knowledge. (But just as with A Fine Balance, I wish he did not make the disgusting so aptly disgusting--I could actually smell the dirt and the squalor by just reading the passages describing that!)