Family affairs

The novel "Family Affairs" entered the short list of the Buker Prize for 2002!
All his life professor of literature from Bombay Nariman Vakil devoted to others. The students in whom he put his soul again and again. The woman, who married involuntarily, out of a sense of duty, actually loving another. The native daughter and children of his wife from his first marriage, between whom he never made a difference, and then grandchildren.
Now Professor Vakil is old, sick and needs to care for. However, the need to unite around it only webs a bonfire of disagreements that the younger generations of the family tormented ...
This story of three generations of one family from Bombay raises the most important problems that are relevant for a person of any national and religious affiliation - the problems of children and parents, religion and humanity