A fine balance
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Word Count
153,500 words, Guess
Page Count
614 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefinebalance0000mist_e9f9
- ISBN-100571258190
- ISBN-10057126882X
- ISBN-139780571258192
- ISBN-139780571268825
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number765601405
- Better World Books9780571258192
- Better World Books9780571268825
- Open LibraryOL32099086M
Classifications
- DDC813.54
- LCCPS8575
- LCCPR9199.3.M494
Description
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 hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Revolutionary writing
Other Editions
- A fine balance
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