About the Author

Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 in Bombay, and now lives near Toronto. His first novel, Such a Long Journey, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and received the Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book of the Year. A Fine Balance is his second novel; it was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction, the Giller Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a Booker Prize finalist. Mistry is also the author of Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag, a collection of interconnected short stories.


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