Cultural Nuances and Parsi Life in Mistry’s novel Such A Long Journey (1991)

Abstract

Mistry won the Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Governor General’s Award in Canada for his debut book, Such A Long Journey (1991). Both the Booker Prize and the Trilliam Prize have it on their short lists. Sturla Gunnarsson adapted the book into a movie, which he published in March 1988. The background of the narrative is the Indo-China and Indo-Pak Wars and the creation of Bangladesh. An upper middle class Parsi family in Mumbai is the focus of the narrative. The main character, middle-class man Gustad Nobel, works in a bank in this pitiful tale.