A Fine Balance
Registered by Jean-Sol of Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on 4/9/2024
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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.
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.
A copy rescued from my local street library. I read this classic novel many years ago and totally loved it. It is near perfect. Apparently Mistry was inspired by Balzac when he wrote it which probably explains partly the appeal it has for me! Ready to travel again.
Journal Entry 3 by Jean-Sol at Ascot Vale Little Free Library in Ascot Vale, Victoria Australia on Saturday, May 4, 2024
Released 2 wks ago (5/5/2024 UTC) at Ascot Vale Little Free Library in Ascot Vale, Victoria Australia
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