... the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: ... unfortunately provides neither a date nor a source, Mistry replies to criticism leveled by Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist writer, during a BBC-TV panel discussion before the 1996 Booker Prize award ceremony. A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, h...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: ... unfortunately provides neither a date nor a source, Mistry replies to criticism leveled by Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist writer, during a BBC-TV panel discussion before the 1996 Booker Prize award ceremony. A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, h...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate