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A Fine Balance

(1995)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Oprah's Book Club Best Book (nominee)
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel (nominee)
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
A novel set in India during the Emergency, by the author of "Such a Long Journey". In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, two tailors and a young student struggle to put together a new life of sorts amid the crisis, and in the course of doing so encounter a vivid cast of characters.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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