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In India during the mid-1970s, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four very different people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence--find their lives becoming inextricably intertwined.
 
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Crush of Humanity displayed in A Fine Balance

Date of Review:  Dec 25, 2001
The Bottom Line: The brightest and darkest sides of humanity are displayed wherever there is poverty. A Fine Balance shows both in abundance. Substance and heart, this is an epic novel.
Review: ~=~ Cautionary Tale ~=~

Before picking up Oprah's current book selection, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, consider whether you have the time. If you let Mistry's characters take up residence in your head or heart, you will not be able...
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Wonderfully written compelling story.
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Darkest side of humanity on display.
 

A Lady, Her Three Roommates, and a Rare Bond

Date of Review:  May 14, 2003
The Bottom Line: A must read for everyone.
Review: Rohinton Mistry, an Indian born author who now lives in Toronto, Canada has been compared to Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy for the realism of his novels. In a glowing introduction to this author, The New York Times said:

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A Fine Book

Date of Review:  Jan 15, 2003
The Bottom Line: This is the kind of book that makes you thankful that gifted authors exist in this world.
Review: It's easy to be put off by the 600-plus pages of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, but this is that rare kind of book that comes along, keeps you awake long into the night and after reaching the final page, leaves you still thinking about the people...
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Authors Rohinton Mistry
Narrator John Lee
Fiction Genre Unknown
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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  New Yorker: "It is impossible not to seethe at the injustices of the police state, and impossible not to take these characters passionately to heart: this is a novel that can stand with the best of Dickens."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc (November 01, 2001)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.95 lbs.
ISBN: 9781400030651

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  The morning express bloated with passengers slowed to a crawl, then lurched forward suddenly, as though to resume full speed. The train's brief deception jolted its riders. The bulge of humans hanging out of the doorway distended perilously, like a soap bubble at its limit.
 
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The eagerly awaited novel from the author of the award-winning Such a Long Journey is set in India in the mid-1970s. A State of Internal Emergency has been declared, and in the days of bleakness and hope that follow, four disparate people find their lives becoming unexpectedly and inextricably entwined.
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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.
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