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Vintage
December 2001
On Sale: November 30, 2001
624 pages
ISBN: 140003065X
EAN: 9781400030651
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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 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.
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