9780571203628
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
ISBN 13: 9780571203628
Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover
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"This is a work of genius. I cannot begin to review it without saying so. It should be read by everyone who loves books, win every prize, make its author a millionaire, and displace once and for all the idea that MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN is a good book about India. Only in fairy tales is such virtue rewarded, and given that Rohinton Mistry wrote SUCH A LONG JOURNEY and saw the 1991 Booker go to Ben Okri, I don't expect justice this time either. But A FINE BALANCE is THE India novel, the novel readers have been waiting for ever since E. M. Forster and J. G. Farrell first attempted to render that vast subcontinent into prose: a novel in which all the suffering and absurdity, terror and beauty, charity and destitution of India are incarnated in two poor tailors, a student and a middle-aged woman."
Amanda Craig, Literary Review, March 1996
Review:"It is a measure of Mistry's skill as a storyteller that the cameo appearances of minor characters are often as gripping as the tales of the central characters: the 'Beggarmaster' who has an odd compassion for his charges, despite his willingness to mutilate them to make them more effective mendicants; the hair-collector who becomes a fortunetelling 'godman'; and the rent collector whose conscience troubles him despite his willingness to carry out the landlord's orders....In A FINE BALANCE, [Mistry] paints an affectionate but unsparing picture of an India where human life and limbs are cheap. Yet Mistry's celebration of courage, generosity, self-sacrifice, and hope in the face of pervasive misery creates a moving testament to his suffering homeland."
Tess Lewis, Washington Post Book World, 04/21/1996
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Book Description: Faber & Faber. CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Paperback ~ Condition: NEW ~ Rohinton Mistry, whose first novel, Such a Long Journey, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is an acknowledged master story-teller of contemporary India. In his new novel, A fine Balance, set in the mid-1970s, he weaves together a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking, achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local detail; above all, compulsively readable. It is the work of a contemporary novelist at the height of his powers.,752 pages ~ Isbn: 0571203620 ~ language: English ~ Year: 1995 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Contents Prologue: 1975CHAPTER ICity by the SeaCHAPTER IIFor Dreams to GrowCHAPTER IIIIn a Village by a RiverCHAPTER IVSmall ObstaclesCHAPTER VMountainsCHAPTER VIDay at the Circus, Night in the SlumCHAPTER VIIOn the MoveCHAPTER VIIIBeautificationCHAPTER IXWhat Law There isCHAPTER XSailing Under One FlagCHAPTER XIThe Bright Future CloudedCHAPTER XIITrace of DestinyCHAPTER XIIIWedding, worms, and SanyasCHAPTER XIVReturn of SolitudeCHAPTER XVFamily PlanningCHAPTER XVIThe Circle is CompletedEpilogue: 1984 Fiction/Novel. Bookseller Inventory # 200 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Faber and Faber 2000 Paperback, 2000. Book Condition: Fair. Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight; and, above all, compulsively readable. 614 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 884950 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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