1. Seeking and Maintaining Balance
... something so, so . . . I said asinine already? So brainless, really." I would defend Mistry, because I have been to Bombay a couple of times and find his descriptions on target, just as Anita Desai's were in Baumgartner's Bombay (1988). Both writers catch the city's squalid side, the poverty, disorder, filth and ruin, the chaos, but at the same time engage its immense vitality and ... world. This conflict between religious tradition and personal fluidity creates the tension in each of the stories. The collection has been compared to Joyce's Dubliners and to Chekhov's work-again, fiction...
- Word Count: 4673
- Approx Pages: 19
- Grade Level: Undergraduate
