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A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

2

awards won

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score

#33 of 8,085 books · #19 in Fiction

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1996) and the Giller Prize (1995). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

India, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever. An epic panorama of modern India in all its corruption, violence, and heroism, A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's prize-winning masterpiece: a Dickensian modern classic brimming with compassion, humour, and insight - and a hymn to the human spirit in an inhuman state.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571248247
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Political turmoil in IndiaFriendship and found familySocial class and injustice

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