Tales From Firozsha Baag is a collection of 11 short stories by Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was...

 about the residents of Firozsha Baag, a Parsi-dominated apartment complex in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

(formerly Bombay). Mistry's first book, it was published by Penguin Canada in 1987. Although all the stories deal with the same location, many were written without the aim of being collected in the same volume.

Stories

• "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"

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