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Such a Long Journey
Such a Long Journey was Rohinton Mistry’s first novel, shortlisted for the *1991 Booker Prize*, and eventually winning the *1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize*. Set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, ‘Such a Long Journey” tells the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his very ordinary family.So effective is the book’s narrative in depicting one of the darker moments in Indian history, that at the time of its publication the Vice Chancellor of the University of Mumbai banned the book from it’s curriculum burned copies of the book publicly on the streets of Mumbai.Decide for yourself just how powerful this fantastic book really is, and go on a literary journey into the heart of the Indian subcontinent.