OVERDONE & UNDERCOOKED

Though Cyrus Mistry’s novel questions the limits of faith, you’re left waiting for a miracle that might save it

- Srinath Perur

In his last novel, the DSC Prize-winning Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, author and playwright Cyrus Mistry portrayed a Parsi community involved in the disposal of corpses. Here, in his third novel, The Prospect of Miracles, he moves from Parsis and Mumbai to Christians in Kottayam, Kerala, and to questions of faith and credulity, what is imagined and what is real.