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082			_223 _a823 MIS
100			_aMistry,Rohinton
245		2	_aA Fine Balance _c/ Rohinton Mistry
250			_aFirst
260			_aLondon _b: Knopf / McClelland & Stewart _c,1995
300			_a614p.
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			_aFiction
650			_a Historical Fiction
650			_a Literary Fiction
942			_cRBK
999			_c69147 _d69147