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A Fine Balance

4.38 ( 159,620 Ratings by Goodreads)
A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance

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Published: 3 February, 1997
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Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have forseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local detail; and, above all, compulsively readable.
Prizes

Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Award 1996 and Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1996 and The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1996 and Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1996 and The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Caribbean and Canada 1996. Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780571179367
ISBN10 0571179363
Number Of Pages 624
Item Weight 399 g
Product Dimensions 137 x 43 x 213 mm
Publisher / Reseller Faber and Faber
Format paperback
Edition First Thus
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Author's Bio

Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 and grew up in Bombay, India, where he also attended university. In 1975 he emigrated to Canada, where he began a course in English and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three novels and one collection of short stories. His debut novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and the Governor General's Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was made into an acclaimed feature film in 1998. His second novel, A Fine Balance(1995), won many prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Giller Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and theIrish Times International Fiction Prize.

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