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100			_aMistry, Rohinton _eauthor.
245			_aA Fine Balance
260			_aCroyden: _bFaber and Faber limited, _c1996.
300			_a614p. _b: ill. _c; 20 cm.
520			_aWith 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.
650			_aCaste—India—Fiction _vFriendship _xPoverty _yIndia—Politics and government—1947–1984 _9811658
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