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A Fine Balance Book

In 1975, in an unidentified Indian city, Mrs Dina Dalal, a financially pressed Parsi widow in her early 40s sets up a sweatshop of sorts in her ramshackle apartment. Determined to remain financially independent and to avoid a second marriage, she takes in a boarder and two Hindu tailors to sew dresses for an export company. As the four share their stories, then meals, then living space, human kinship prevails and the four become a kind of family, despite the lines of caste, class and religion. When tragedy strikes, their cherished, newfound stability is threatened, and each character must face a difficult choice in trying to salvage their relationships.Read More

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  • Amazon

    Set in mid-1970s India, a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight.

  • Foyles

    'A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius.'IndependentIndia, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever. An epic panorama of modern India in all its corruption, violence, and heroism, A Fine Balanceis Rohinton Mistry's prize-winning masterpiece: a Dickensian modern classic brimming with compassion, humour, and insight - and a hymn to the human spirit in an inhuman state.'A masterpiece of illumination and grace. Like all great fiction, it transforms our understanding of life.' Guardian'Magical.'New York Times'Monumental.'Time'Astonishing.' Wall Street JournalWhat readers are saying:'One of the most layered and beautifully executed books I've ever read ... Easily one of my all time favourite books!''Many say that the mark of a good book is that it stays with you; well, I read this several years ago and I still find myself thinking of the characters ... Beautiful.''What a storyteller, what a wide canvas he covers of India ... Wonderful.''One of the best and most entertaining books I have ever read ... I can't recommend it highly enough.''Often heartbreaking, always evocative ... A book to savour rather than to gallop through.''One of the best books I've read ... Not a book for the faint-hearted, but it is a book with a big heart.'

  • TheBookPeople

    A fascinatingly authentic account of 1970s India, albeit a painful, cruel and tragic one, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is a vast and beautiful novel that is riddled with sadness and injustice. A depiction of the Indian Caste system, the book follows a group of the country?s poorest people as they constantly find themselves being kicked while they are down ? by the government, the police and the elite. Despite this there are touching scenes of humanity in a novel that is largely harrowing and eye-opening and will occupy your thoughts for some time after the final page is turned.

  • BookDepository

    A Fine Balance : Paperback : Faber & Faber : 9780571230587 : : 19 Oct 2006 : Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight;

  • Play

    Set in mid-1970s India a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane intensely political yet rich with local delight.

  • 057123058X
  • 9780571230587
  • Rohinton Mistry
  • 19 October 2006
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 624
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