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Doongaji House: Selected Plays

Cyrus Mistry . Aleph Book Company . English

<i>Doongaji House: Selected Plays</i> collects the finest plays of award-winning playwright Cyrus Mistry. <i>Doongaji House</i> won the Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting in 1978 and depicts the travails of a Parsi family living in a crumbling old mansion in Mumbai. </i>The Legacy of Rage</i> is a coruscating look at a dysfunctional East Indian family squabbling over their inheritance and the sweeping changes in society that have brought them to the edge of penury. <i>A Flowering of Disorder</i>, a play that is being published for the first time, is also set in Mumbai and goes deep into the problems, both farcical and profound, of a middle-class family attempting to cope with the challenges of living in a metropolis. Taken together, these brilliant plays expose the insecurities, frailties, and contradictions that lie at the heart of Indian middle-class society.

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About the Author

<b>Cyrus Mistry</b> began his writing career as a playwright, freelance journalist, and short-story writer. His play <i>Doongaji House</i>, written in 1977 when he was twenty-one, has acquired classic status in contemporary Indian theatre in English. One of his short stories was made into a Gujarati feature film. His plays and screenplays have won several awards. His novel <i>Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer</i> (2012) won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, 2014.

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