Rohinton Mistry

A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.

Gustad Noble finds his family life and professional life unravelling during 1971, as Bombay teams with national tensions on the international scene.