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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.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Mistry, Rohinton
- ISBN: 9781400030651
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.10 x 1.30
- Number Of Pages: 624
- Publication Year: 2001
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Good until the end.
Would RecommendHenny R. - 1 month agoI enjoyed the writing and the characters, but the ending ruined the book for me. It felt rushed, as if the author simply didn’t know what to do with his character. It was poorly done with no explanation and so really tarnished the entire book for me which I had been enjoying until then.
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A truly epic tale of the heroic human spirit.
Olivia M. - 7 years 7 months agoA Fine Balance is epic historical fiction that takes place in Bombay, India from 1975 to 1984 during the political changes and tumult known as The Emergency. The Emergency was called by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, elections were suspended and The Prime Minister ruled by decree. Civil liberties were suspended and terrible atrocities were executed, including a forced mass sterilization of thousands of the poor. The book follows four people from different walks of life, castes and social class. Their lives intertwine Dickens-style intricate and rich, authentic and hopeful and heartbreaking all at once. Read this book and I promise you will never be the same.
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