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Book 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, iContinue
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bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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States of Emergency
“ Un roman est un miroir…” Stendhal said. “A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.” Of course, not all novelists choose to carry mirrors of p ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010
10 Reviews
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Hold Your Spin said on Dec 4, 2006 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
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Lgpitre said on Feb 6, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
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Readingrat said on Dec 28, 2010 | Add your feedback
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A wonderfully written book
An amazing piece of literature that keeps you hooked till the very last page. Having said that, A Fine Balance is the one book that broke my heart. The description of everyday life in India of the lower classes, is so realistically painful that I had to stop reading it and get back to it a fe ... (continue)
Wild Raccoon said on Jul 6, 2010 | Add your feedback
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A Fine Balance
A wonderful novel depicting one of the many difficult periods in India's history, the 1970's 'State of Internal Emergency' I got really immersed in this one, what a cruel world we live in. I felt so very sad for the main characters and the way they coped with everything that life threw at them. Life ... (continue)
Lindyloumac said on Aug 28, 2009 | Add your feedback
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Step Bp said on May 12, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 624 Pages
- ISBN-10: 140003065X
- ISBN-13: 9781400030651
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Nov 30, 2001
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Elizabeth Bennet 
A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry's fine novel, A Fine Balance, with its non-Western setting, differs from most of the books chosen for Oprah's Book Club, but I'm delighted that the novel, and now this audio, wonderfully narrated by Madhur Jaffrey, have gotten renewed ... (read full critics)