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A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
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ISBN13: 9781400030651 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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. <BR>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.
Review:
"Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." --Wall Street Journal
"A serious and important work . . . the product of high intelligence and passionate conviction." --New York Review of Books
"Monumental. . . . Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry." --Pico Iyer, Time
"Those who continue to harp on the decline of the novel . . . ought to consider Rohinton Mistry. He needs no infusion of magic realism to vivify the real. The real world, through his eyes, is magical." --The New York Times
About the Author
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and now lives near Toronto. His first novel, Such a Long Journey, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and received, among other awards, the Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book of the Year. A Fine Balance is his second novel, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction, the Giller Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize as well as a Booker Prize finalist. Mistry is also the author of Swimming Lessons, a collection of short stories.
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tayyabajkhan, March 26, 2008 (view all comments by tayyabajkhan)
I was recommended to read this book by a total stranger I encountered in a public library. The American lady said to me, 'If you enjoy literature then you've got to read "A Fine Balance". I wish I could thank the lady for helping me select one of the greatest book I've ever read in a long time. I not only enjoyed the book, I loved it, and literally cried and laughed with the characters, for the fact that these characters were not imaginary, but they exist in a real world, maybe with different names.
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Laurie Blum, September 15, 2007 (view all comments by Laurie Blum)
I am signed up for a trip to visit the country of India December 2007 - January 2008 ... Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance" is suggested reading. It was a pleasure re-reading this astonishing novel once again, should be read by everyone who loves books! "A Fine Balance" is THE India novel which transforms our understanding of life! The main characters will crawl into your heart - 4 stars!
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Tooky, May 24, 2006 (view all comments by Tooky)
One of the best books I have ever read!!!! A must read!!!! I could not put it down and even today, 4 years after I read it, I can still remember the characters vividly in my mind. Definitely worth the read!!!!
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781400030651
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- India
- Subject:
- City and town life
- Subject:
- Historical fiction
- Subject:
- Apartment houses
- Subject:
- Domestic fiction
- Subject:
- FICTION / Literary
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Oprah's Book Club (Paperback)
- Series Volume:
- 59
- Publication Date:
- November 2001
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 624
- Dimensions:
- 7.96x5.24x1.36 in. 1.00 lbs.
