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A Fine Balance

By - Mistry, Rohinton
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Vintage Books, New York, 1997
ISBN 10 - 140003065X
ISBN 13 - 9781400030651
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - India , City and town life
Shelf No - 5
Call Number - 813.54 MIS
Physical Description - 603 pages ; 21 cm
Notes - Include index
Book Information
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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