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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work ofCharles Dickens this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty andcorruption dignity and heroism of India. The time is 1975. The place is anunnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergencyin whose upheavals four strangersa spirited widow a young student uprootedfrom his idyllic hill station and two tailors who have fled the caste violenceof their native villagewill be thrust together forced to share one crampedapartment and an uncertain future.As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to loveA Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhumanstate. «
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