cover image Swimming Lessons

Swimming Lessons

Rohinton Mistry. Penguin Books, $7.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012807-9

``The world of Mistry's stories is a Bombay apartment complex. Various inhabitants are examined in interlocking narratives that evoke brilliantly the textures of this exotic yet startlingly knowable setting. . . . These 11 short narratives form an elegant mosaic that should confirm Mistry as a rising star in the literary firmament,'' acclaimed PW. (May)