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An Engaging Story
A Fine Balance is yet another wonderful novel from Rohinton Mistry. Mistry is like Flaubert. His characters come to life. I like the description of Indian society, especially the lower classes in this novel. That is quite evocative. Set in Mumbai, India between 1947 and 1977 during the...
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Haunting and Mesmerizing
I first picked up this book because it was an Oprah Book Club selection. I thought that I'd be hip and read it along with everyone else. Of course, I didn't get around to it until months later. But when I actually picked up the book, I could not put it down. It was intense and mesmerizing from the... Read full review »
A Fine Balance
A piece of work so moving that it will make you shudder. The way Rohinton Mistry describes the characters makes your heart cry. I read this book many years ago and his characters still haunt me to this day. A friend of mine was visiting India for the first time and for once decided to take a... Read full review »
The Next "Grapes of Wrath"
This book is the most depressing book I have ever read, but I'd still recommend it to you if you asked me.
The author masterfully sketches a number of characters living in India whose lives are slowly drawn together throughout the novel. It begins with two tailors on a train, full of hope...
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A Lady, Her Three Roommates, and a Rare Bond
Rohinton Mistry, an Indian born author who now lives in Toronto, Canada has been compared to Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy for the realism of his novels. In a glowing introduction to this author, The New York Times said:
"Those who continue to harp on the decline of the novel ought to...
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Thank your lucky stars...Don't take anything for granted.
This was one of the best books I have ever read. It was definitely a page turner and I literally could not put it down. I realize I am reading a really good book when it starts to interfere with everyday life. The story revolves around four main characters who come together during a political... Read full review »
A Fine Book
It's easy to be put off by the 600-plus pages of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, but this is that rare kind of book that comes along, keeps you awake long into the night and after reaching the final page, leaves you still thinking about the people who inhabited the pages of the story.
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A fine Balance
A Fine Balance is a great novel. It is written by Bohinton Minstry. Who I believe to be a great writer. It is a tale about 2 men and the twists and turns; both good and bad, that they encounter due to the state of emergency in India. This book was featured on Oprah's book club and is very well... Read full review »
India is a dream , a nightmare, renewing and rotting all at once.
I love being swept away into another country, world and/or reality. Reading for me is not only for entertainment but for education and blissful escape. Rohinton Mistry gives me satisfaction on all these levels with "A Fine Balance."
The story is deep and expands back and forth for...
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A City by the Sea.
"Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end, it's all a question of balance."
Uttered very nonchalantly by Vasantrao Valmik, a lawyer turned proofreader turned political-speechwriter...
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Draws you in; exquisite connection to humanity; simultaneously painful and glorious
I wish everybody in America would read this book, and then maybe we could all benefit by living in a country which displayed its considerable compassion and love of justice more rather than less (hope that doesn't sound too granola...). I read it 2.5 years ago, and, it is still with me. It... Read full review »
Crush of Humanity displayed in A Fine Balance
~=~ Cautionary Tale ~=~
Before picking up Oprah's current book selection, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, consider whether you have the time. If you let Mistry's characters take up residence in your head or heart, you will not be able to stop reading. Timing turned out to be a big...
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A tragic story about a tragic country
A friend recommended this to me a while ago after I told her that I enjoyed this other book because of its kalaidescopic view of a society. This book seems more focussed on the story of individuals whose lives intersect, how these different individuals' outlooks are formed, how they interact with... Read full review »
A great Indian novel.
A fine balance represents a substantial achievement. Although it is a book about issues gripping an entire nation, and although it depicts a culture, and a nation in candid, rich style, it never seems anything other than human in its style and approach.
This is a novel, which not only...
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Striking A Fine Balance
Modern India is beginning to export a tremendous number of fine English language writers. Rushdie, Seth, Jhabvala, and Mehta are a few of the writers who have made in roads in the last two decades. Rohinton Mistry, in A Fine Balance, proves himself to be every bit their equal. With extremely clear... Read full review »
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A Fine Balance by Mistry Rohinton
Free Worldwide Delivery : A Fine Balance : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9781400030651 : 140003065X : 01 Sep 2005 : The eagerly awaited novel from the author of the award-winning Such a Long Journey is set in India in the mid-1970s. A State of Internal Emergency has been declared, and in the days of bleakness and hope that follow, four disparate people find their lives becoming unexpectedly and inextricably entwined.
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