Tales from Firozsha Baag

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Tales From Firozsha Baag is a collection of 11 short stories by Rohinton Mistry about the residents of Firozsha Baag, a Parsi-dominated apartment complex in Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

The collection was Rohinton Mistry's first published book. Although all of the stories deal with the same location, many of them were written without the aim of compiling them together.

[edit] Stories in the collection

  • Auspicious Occasion
  • One Sunday
  • The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
  • Condolence Visit
  • The Collectors
  • Of White Hairs and Cricket
  • The Paying Guests
  • Squatter
  • Lend Me Your Light
  • Exercisers
  • Swimming Lessons

[edit] Awards

1983 First Prize, Hart House Literary Contest for "One Sunday" (short story) 1984 First Prize, Hart House Literary Contest for "Auspicious Occasion" (short story) 1985 Annual Contributors' Prize, Canadian Fiction Magazine

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