A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
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“A Dickensian novel that captures the essence of being poor in urban India in ways extraordinary and deeply human. | Now, on 2 more studious & sensible topics...reading an INCREDIBLE book "A Fine Balance" Set n 1970's India. WOW! a gift from some1 @ a show!”
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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 strangersa spirited widow...
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“A Dickensian novel that captures the essence of being poor in urban India in ways extraordinary and deeply human. | Now, on 2 more studious & sensible topics...reading an INCREDIBLE book "A Fine Balance" Set n 1970's India. WOW! a gift from some1 @ a show!”
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