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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400030651 ISBN: 140003065X Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 624 Publication Date: November 30, 2001 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: November 30, 2001 Studio: Vintage Editorial Review: Product 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, 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - HelCrisGood reading althought, as others reviews state, too much suffering, excessive tragedies, and when you think it is over, Mistry finds something even worse for his characters. It looks like the is NO balance afterwards, not even a "fine" balance. It's all too sad. Rating:  - Devastating and Brilliant: Worth 600+ pages and moreI have never encountered a book so moving as Mistry's A Fine Balance. Following the story of Ishvar and Om, I found myself so invested in what was happening to them - the injustice of India's government is infuriating, and the ways in which the overcoming of an obstacle only leads to another is simultaneously depressing and motivational, due to the resilience of each character. A Fine Balance is not a light read, but once you begin, you will not be able to stop. Mistry maintains a balance ... Read More Rating: - A fine book!One of the best books I've read in a very long time. The characters will stay with you for years. Rating:  - Delectable and DisturbingThis is not a book for the faint of heart. It relates the interwoven histories of four main characters and several peripheral individulas who impact on their lives. Try to imagine people who are floating together in one huge river in India, a river that is made up of currents of brutality, avarice, corruption and cruelty - all blending and separating and rejoining in a nonending and inescapable life force. The characters never get out. At times they may escape some, or all, of these currents, but only ... Read More Rating:  - Murphy's LawThis book is the epitome of Murphy's Law- what can go wrong, will go wrong. It is so needlessly depressing. I am not one to only read books that are filled with sunshine and rainbows, but like many other reviewers have said, the problems faced by the characters in this book are SO numerous that as I read it, I became jaded. This book exhausted and numbed me and towards the end, the misfortunes of the characters had no affect on me. I do feel like the author stereotyped India and Indian citizens to ... Read More |
