Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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 forseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local detail; and, above all, compulsively readable.
Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 and grew up in Bombay, India, where he also attended university. In 1975 he emigrated to Canada, where he began a course in English and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three novels and one collection of short stories. His debut novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and the Governor General's Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was made into an acclaimed feature film in 1998. His second novel, A Fine Balance(1995), won many prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Giller Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and theIrish Times International Fiction Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571179367 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571179363 |
| Title | Fine Balance |
| Author | Rohinton Mistry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 1997-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Award 1996, Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1996, Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1996, Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1996, Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Caribbean and Canada 1996, Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997, Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1996 |
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