Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories | 1987 | Rohinton Mistry | Buy |
| 2 | From Ink Lake | 1990 | Rohinton Mistry | Buy |
| 3 | Rotten English | 2007 | Rohinton Mistry | Buy |
| 4 | The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction. | 2008 | Rohinton Mistry | Buy |
| 5 | Freedom | 2009 | Rohinton Mistry | Buy |
Mistry’s anthology appearances reflect the dual context of his work: he is both a Canadian writer, represented in The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories and the Giller Prize anthology, and a writer of the Indian diaspora, at home in collections of postcolonial and multilingual literature.
Rotten English (2007), with its focus on fiction written in non-standard varieties of English, is a particularly interesting context for his work — Mistry’s Bombay dialogue captures the English spoken by Parsi characters in a way that is specific and recognizable, and it belongs in any discussion of how English-language fiction reflects the world’s linguistic diversity.