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A Fine BalanceWith 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
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.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/30/2001
ISBN: 9781400030651
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 100
Entertainment Weekly 12/05/2014 pg. 73
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 56456 / Fine Balance
Reading Level: 5.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 36
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THIS ITEM WORKED WONDERS FOR ME..
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