A Fine Balance

Author: Rohinton Mistry

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  • : 23.95 NZD
  • : 9780571203628
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  • : 01 March 2000
  • : 177mm X 111mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

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.

Awards

Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1996 and Commonwealth Writers Prize 1996. Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.