by Rohinton Mistry · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483460788
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Un perfecto equilibrio» is the historical fiction novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by Debolsillo in hardback (720 pages, in Spanish).
In 1975 India, under the state of emergency, four strangers share a flat: Dina, a widowed seamstress; Maneck, a mountain youth sent to study in the city; and tailors Ishvar and Omprakash, fleeing caste violence. Amid scarcity and oppression, their coexistence weaves a friendship that becomes their refuge.
Translation of the original «A Fine Balance» (1995); winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996.
Suitable for book clubs and readers of literary and historical fiction set in India.
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.
