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~ Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize - 1995, Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize - 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction - 1996, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall - 1996
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance tells the story of four unlikely people (a spirited widow, a young student, and two tailors) whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances (and their fates) become inextricably linked in ways that no one could have forseen . . .
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, A Fine Balance is a magnificent novel that captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India.
“A masterpiece of illumination and grace. A Fine Balance, like all great fiction, it transforms our understanding of life.” -- The Guardian