A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.
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“A masterpiece of illumination and grace. Like all great fiction, it transforms our understanding of life.”
–The Guardian (U.K.)
“This novel has the courage to remember and to reaffirm who we are, one by one; it continues, in the tradition of the great novels, to celebrate the luminous and unquenchable human spirit.”
–Globe and Mail
“Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry.”
–Time
“A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius....”
–The Independent (U.K.)
“An astonishing novel...full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life.”
–Wall Street Journal
“A work of stature...in scope, insight, and above all compassion for human beings.”
–Montreal Gazette
“Those who continue to harp on the inevitable decline of the novel ought to...consider Rohinton Mistry.”
–New York Times Book Review of Books
“The story unfolds with the grace and beauty of a butterfly’s wing...extraordinary.”
–The Times (U.K.)
“Mistry has demonstrated once again the enduring power of fiction to make sense of it all simply by telling a story...Read it.”
–Vancouver Sun
“Every word of it seems like a fleck of brilliant light on a dancing ocean....A major achievement.”
–Scotland on Sunday
“A compelling book that manages the rare feat of being both entertaining and compassionate.”
–India Today
“Compulsively readable; also funny, intensely moving and, like Bombay, pullulating with humanity.”
–The Independent (U.K.)
“Impossible to put down.”
–The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Rohinton Mistry is the author of a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987), and three internationally acclaimed novels, Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2002). His fiction has won many prestigious international awards, including The Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Governor General’s Award, the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, The Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Award, and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction. A Fine Balance was also an Oprah’s Book Club® selection.
Born in Bombay in 1952, Rohinton Mistry came to Canada in 1975.
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