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A Fine Balance: A Novel (Vintage International)

by Rohinton Mistry

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Paperback · 624 pages Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 2001

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A Fine Balance

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • “Monumental . . . Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry.”—Pico Iyer, Time

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, AND GILLER PRIZE

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers—a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village—will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Author
Rohinton Mistry
Format
Paperback
Published
Nov 30, 2001
ISBN-13
9781400030651
ISBN-10
140003065X
Pages
624
Carton quantity
24 copies
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