A fine balance
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9781400030651
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|---|---|
| Grouping Title | fine balance |
| Grouping Author | rohinton mistry |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-06-03 23:58:52PM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-06-06 05:12:59AM |
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Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
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The setting of Mistry's quietly magnificent second novel (after the acclaimed Such a Long Journey) is India in 1975-76, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, defying a court order calling for her resignation, declares a state of emergency and imprisons the parliamentary opposition as well as thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and journalists. These events, along with the government's forced sterilization campaign, serve as backdrop for an intricate tale of four ordinary people struggling to survive. Naive college student Maneck Kohlah, whose parents' general store is failing, rents a room in the house of Dina Dalal, a 40-ish widowed seamstress. Dina acquires two additional boarders: hapless but enterprising itinerant tailor Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash, whose father, a village untouchable, was murdered as punishment for crossing caste boundaries.
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9781400030651
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1997
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Vintage International
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A fine balance
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A fine balance
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