TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mistry, Rohinton
TI  - A fine balance: a novel 
SN  - 9780571230587
U1  - 813.6 MIS-R 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - India
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Apartment houses
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Interpersonal relations
N1  - Set in the mid-1970s in India, A Fine Balance tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen.

Written with compassion, humour and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured and powerful novel by one of the most gifted writers of our time.

'A masterpiece of illumination and grace. Like all great fiction, it transforms our understanding of life.' Guardian
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