The novel “Family Matters” was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 2002! Nariman Vakil, a literature professor from Bombay, dedicated his entire life to others. To the students in whom he poured his soul again and again. The woman he married against his will, out of a sense of duty, while actually loving another. To his own daughter and his wife’s children from his first marriage, between whom he never made a difference, and then to his grandchildren. Now Professor Vakil is old, sick and in need of care. However, the need to unite around him only fuels the fire of disagreements that torment the younger generations of the family... This story of three generations of one family from Bombay raises the most important problems relevant to people of any national and religious background - problems of children and parents, religion and humanity.