A fine balance - Rambling Readers

Hardcover, 603 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2001 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:: 978-0-375-41481-7

(1 review)

A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.

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Heather reviewed A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry

Review of 'A fine balance' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

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.

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India -- History -- 1947- -- Fiction.

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