Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer

Name: Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
Author: Cyrus Mistry

by Cyrus Mistry

A Parsi funeral worker confronts identity, love, and mortality in contemporary Mumbai

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Cyrus Mistry

Indian English novelist whose Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer drew on his Parsi community's dying tradition of funerary priests. His fiction is distinguished by dark wit and precise historical observation.

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