← Cyrus MistryDoongaji Houseby Cyrus MistryDomestic family saga set in a declining Parsi building in BombayFind on Amazon↗About the authorCyrus MistryIndian 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.More by Cyrus MistryChronicle of a Corpse BearerA Parsi funeral worker confronts identity, love, and mortality in contemporary Mumbai→The Radiance of AshesIntergenerational tragedy examining Parsi family secrets and inheritance of grief→