Book :: A Fine Balance
| By: | Rohinton Mistry |
| Pages: | 603 |
| Published: | 1995 |
| Genre(s): | India |
| Historical Fiction | |
| Canada | |
| Rating: | (3) |
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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...
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forline
one of my all-time favorites. Recommended by a co-worker, I had the bookclub read it and everyone loved it!
Mar 24th, 2018
skhamilt
Fantastic and extremely moving. I wanted to throw the book at the wall when I finished it.
Aug 9th, 2013
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