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Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
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Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Giller Prize.
International Dublin Literary Award.
Apartment houses -- Fiction.
Political persecution -- Fiction.
Political stability -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
India -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Giller Prize.
International Dublin Literary Award.
Apartment houses -- Fiction.
Political persecution -- Fiction.
Political stability -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
India -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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A
fine
balance
/ Rohinton Mistry.
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Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
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FICTION MIS
Subjects
Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Giller Prize.
International Dublin Literary Award.
Apartment houses -- Fiction.
Political persecution -- Fiction.
Political stability -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
India -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Oprah's book club
New Canadian library
Canada reads ; 2002
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ISBN:
9780771060540 (1997 M&S/Emblem trade pbk.)
9780571230587
9780771034800 (2002 McClelland & Stewart New Canadian Library pbk.)
Description:
748 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
2002 McClelland & Stewart New Canadian Library paperback edition contains an afterword by Pico Iyer.
Summary:
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.
Awards:
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 1996.
Winner of the Giller Prize, 1995.
Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1995.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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4
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