A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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, TimeWINNER 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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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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |
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