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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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Summary
Summary
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
Winner of the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book
Winner of the 1995 Scotiabank Giller Prize
A 1996 Man Booker Prize Finalist
A 1997 International Dublin Literary Award Finalist
An Oprah’s Book Club Selection in 2001
A USA Today bestseller
An ALA Notable Book Finalist for Fiction
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Available Formats : | Digital Download |
Runtime: | 24.42 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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