A fine balance - Rohinton Mistry

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

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.

*Mistry is a master blender of the picaresque and the tragic... To say he captures the textures of India well and creates larger-than-life characters is to note the least of his achievements. If anything, his success is to make life seem so much larger than the characters - a far tougher task for the novelist.. Enthralling.

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