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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Rohinton Mistry |
| Narrator: |
John Lee |
| Awards: |
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize |
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Professional Reviews
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Literary Review: "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." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (March 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.3 lbs.
ISBN: 9780613557092 |
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First Line
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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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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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