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Book Review of A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance
Author: Rohinton Mistry
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


The time is 1975. The place an unknamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a state of emergency, in whose upheavles four strangers-a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violenceof their native village-will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.