SUCH A LONG JOURNEY
by Rohinton Mistry
Knopf; 352 pages; $22
Many of the great political writers -- Nadine Gordimer, say, or Graham Greene -- catch revolution on the human scale by showing how the affairs of state impinge on even the most private of individuals. And many a writer of compassion, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller and beyond, has described how one man can be undone by his wish to be kind. Such lofty precedents do not seem out of place when discussing the exceptionally vivid and often heartbreaking first novel of Rohinton Mistry, a 38-year-old Indian living in Canada,...
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