A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

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.

Rohinton Mistry is the author of Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987), a collection of short stories, and three novels: Such a Long Road (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2002), all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels have won the Giller Prize, the Governor-General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and the L.A. Times Book Prize, among others. The Times Book Prize is awarded to the best book published in the United Kingdom Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and has lived in Canada since 1975. He was nominated for the Man Booker International Award in 2011 and received the Neustadt International Prize for Writing in 2012. His work has been translated into more than 35 languages.

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ISBN 13	9781400030651
ISBN 10	140003065X
Title	A Fine Balance
Author	Rohinton Mistry
Series	Vintage International
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2001-11-30
Number of pages	624
Prizes	Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 1996
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