Abstract
Such a Long Journey is Rohinton Mistry’s first novel. It was published in 1991. It is “a highly poised and accomplished work.’’ (SLJ Cover Page) This creation of Mistry won many awards e.g Governor General Award, Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for best book etc. It was also Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This Novel has been translated into German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Japanese. It has also been made into a movie named Such a Long Journey Which was released in 1998. As commented in Spectator, It is “a rich, humane work, undoubtedly one of the best novels about india in recent Years”(SLJ Cover Page). Rohinton Mistry is considerd to be one of the famous authors who have gone out of India and are writing in English. He uses’ ordinary’ men and women as his protagonists in his novels. He fills his novels with the sights, sounds, smells and colour of India. His characters are neither saints nor sinners; he involves the readers in their lives as they try to survive the comlexities of their culture.
Highlights
Introduction theIndia he has evoked is that of the 1960 and 1970s
More especially it is Bombay of that era he has. Such a Long Journey (1991) is a brilliant novel by one of the most remarkable writers of fiction who have emerged from India in recent years
It is set in Bombay against the backdrop of the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 and the emergence of Bangladesh as a separate independent nation
Summary
It is “a highly poised and accomplished work.’’ (SLJ Cover Page) This creation of Mistry won many awards e.g Governor General Award, Common wealth Writer’s Prize for best book etc. It was Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rohinton Mistry is considerd to be one of the famous authors who have gone out of India and are writing in English. He uses’ ordinary’ men and women as his protagonists in his novels. As per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of Human Social Science ( A ) Volume XX Issue XV Version I Year 2020
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