Cyrus Mistry

The Radiance of Ashes

Intergenerational tragedy examining Parsi family secrets and inheritance of grief

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Cyrus Mistry
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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