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A Fine Balance

By Rohinton Mistry

By Rohinton Mistry

By Rohinton Mistry

By Rohinton Mistry

By Rohinton Mistry
Read by Madhur Jaffrey

By Rohinton Mistry
Read by Madhur Jaffrey

By Rohinton Mistry
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By Rohinton Mistry
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Nov 30, 2001 | ISBN 9781400030651

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Jul 21, 2010 | ISBN 9780307523631

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Jan 08, 2002 | 378 Minutes

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Dec 10, 2001 | 1472 Minutes

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    About A Fine Balance

    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.

    About A Fine Balance

    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.

    About A Fine Balance

    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.

    About A Fine Balance

    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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    About Rohinton Mistry

    Rohinton Mistry is the author of three novels that were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag.His first novel, Such a Long Journey, won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers… More about Rohinton Mistry

    About Rohinton Mistry

    Rohinton Mistry is the author of three novels that were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag.His first novel, Such a Long Journey, won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers… More about Rohinton Mistry

    About Rohinton Mistry

    Rohinton Mistry is the author of three novels that were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag.His first novel, Such a Long Journey, won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers… More about Rohinton Mistry

    About Rohinton Mistry

    Rohinton Mistry is the author of three novels that were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag.His first novel, Such a Long Journey, won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers… More about Rohinton Mistry

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 30, 2001 | 624 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400030651

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 21, 2010 | 624 Pages | ISBN 9780307523631

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jan 08, 2002 | 378 Minutes | ISBN 9780553756159

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $30.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Dec 10, 2001 | 1472 Minutes | ISBN 9780736698917
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    Praise

    "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

    Awards

    Neustadt International Prize for Literature WINNER 2011

    IMPAC Dublin Literary Award FINALIST 1997

    Man Booker Prize FINALIST 1996

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