by Rohinton Mistry · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571203628
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«A Fine Balance» is the historical novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by Faber and Faber in paperback (752 pages, in English).
India, mid-1970s: under the state of emergency, four strangers —Dina, a widowed seamstress; Maneck, a student; and Ishvar and Om, tailors who fled their village— share a flat. Despite mistrust, they form family bonds while seeking a balance between hope and despair.
It is Rohinton Mistry's second novel. It won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and book clubs interested in India and contemporary literary fiction.
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his three novels was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. All have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society.
