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Family Matters (ペーパーバック)

by Rohinton Mistry (著)
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Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson's disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character's reaction to this situation, from Roxanne's husband's struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman's tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different").

Family Matters is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family's history. In a poetic style rich with detail, Mistry creates a world where fate dances with free will, and the results are often more familiar than anyone would ever care to admit. --Gisele Toueg
--This text refers to the ハードカバー edition.



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As an epigraph to his humane and generous novel Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry uses a reverse version of Tolstoy's words from Anna Karenina--"Each happy family is happy in its own way, but all unhappy families resemble one another". The unhappy family in this book belongs to Nariman Vakeel, an elderly, retired English teacher in Bombay. His stepson Jal and stepdaughter Coomy look after the old man, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, but a street accident renders him even more in need of help. Resentfully Jal and Coomy provide it but, when opportunity offers, they deliver Nariman into the care (and flat) of his daughter Roxana, the much-loved offspring of what was an otherwise loveless marriage. Roxana is married with two children and lives in cramped conditions that the arrival of the now bed-ridden old man makes worse. The tensions of the present and rankling discontents from the past collide as Mistry's narrative unfolds. At the heart of the story is the literal claustrophobia of the flat and the metaphorical claustrophobia of a family bound tightly together by the deeply ambivalent emotions of its members but Family Matters is not a limited or restricted novel.

Through the stories of Roxana's husband Yezad and her sons Murad and Jehangir, Mistry opens the book to lives outside the family. Characters like Yezad's ebullient employer Mr Kapur, the eager but incompetent handyman Edul Munshi, the violinist Daisy Ichhaporia and others provide a keen sense of the wider world of Bombay in which the family dramas are secretively played out. What best emerges from the novel is Mistry's compassionate sense of the frustrations, temptations and everyday sufferings life imposes on all his characters. All, in the end, resemble one another in the accommodations and compromises they are obliged to make. --Nick Rennison --This text refers to the ハードカバー edition.


Product Details

  • ペーパーバック: 500 pages
  • Publisher: Faber (2002/11/4)
  • Language: 英語, 英語, 英語
  • ISBN-10: 0571207634
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571207633
  • Release Date: 2002/11/4
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 1.3 inches
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.jp Sales Rank: #270,371 in 洋書 (See Bestsellers in 洋書)

    Category Rankings:

    #15452 in  洋書 > Literature & Fiction > World Literature

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 異国の物語と言うよりは「人間」の物語です, 2004/1/23
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難病のパーキンソン氏病に侵され、怪我をしたため寝たきりになってしまった老人ナリマンは、実の娘ロクサーナの家族と同居して面倒を看てもらう事になります。ところが徐々に過去が暴かれ、非情にも家を追い出した亡き妻の連れ子、クーミーとジャルに対して攻められない現実がわかってきます。同作家の前作、Such a Long Journeyと同じく、興味深いアパートの住人達や他の登場人物が皆、憎めない魅力をかもし出しています。特に孫のけなげさには涙をそそられます。悲劇的なテーマであるにも関わらず暗くならず、ユーモアある温かい作品になっているのは、作者の思いやりを持って人物を描く姿勢に由来するのだと思います。インドの特異なパーシー社会を描いていますが、万人に通じる「家族愛」、「許す事」、「幸せ」が根本のテーマです。
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 素晴らしい作品です, 2006/4/23
By 閑閑 (滋賀) - See all my reviews
このレビューの引用元: Family Matters (ペーパーバック)
いつものように登場人物には様々な不幸が降りかかるのですが、それを友人、親戚、そして家族によって克服してゆくという物語です。
無論、ミストリー調の悲観的な世界観は当然のことのように感じますが、それは大きな家族愛や人間愛に下支えされたものであることは言うまでもないでしょう。そしてそこに感銘をうたれ、感動するのです。
個人的には『Fine Balance』よりもずっと満足できる内容でした。
 また、日本にいてはまず目にすることもないパールシー教徒の生活様式、慣習、儀礼などもしばしば書かれているので、そのあたりも興味深いものでした。
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