Such a Long Journey
#3170 of 8,085 books · #1546 in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1991).
Such a Long Journey is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. Such a Long Journey was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN-13
- 9780571248568
- Genre
- Topics
- Family and everyday life amid political upheavalWar and its impact on ordinary peopleIdentity and community in postcolonial India
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1991)
Other awarded books from Rohinton Mistry
- A Fine Balance (2008)2 wins · 28 score
- Family Matters (2008)0 wins · 8 score
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