Rohinton Mistry: A fine balance (2006, Faber)
English language
Published Oct. 19, 2006 by Faber.
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight; and, above all, compulsively readable.
Bleak but tremendously well-written. One or two sections of this very long book dragged on a little for me, but the book is written so beautufully and in such stark and shocking terms that I was, in the main, completely absorbed.
