Family Matters: a Novel
by Mistry, Rohinton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0375403736
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403736
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 2002. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and dated in the year of publication, on the title page. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. "In 2002, Mistry cancelled his United States book tour for his novel Family Matters because he and his wife were targeted by security agents at every airport he visited, apparently because Mistry appeared to be Muslim." The signed American first edition is less common than the signed first Canadian edition. Slight edgewear to dustjacket.
Synopsis
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and now lives near Toronto. His first novel, Such a Long Journey , received, among other awards, the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book of the Year. In 1995, A Fine Balance won the second annual Giller Prize and, in 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Mistry is also the author of Swimming Lessons , a collection of short stories.
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- Bookseller
- Great Northern Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8056
- Title
- Family Matters: a Novel
- Author
- Mistry, Rohinton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375403736
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403736
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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