You may be weeping at the end of them, because life is sad, but you won't mind that. Jul 21, ISBN What this means is that the poor are rounded up by force, beaten if necessary. Like most Americans, I remember clearly the date September 11, Thank you for your feedback. Mistry makes you feel sad for a reason. 
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May 10, Gumble's Yard rated it it was amazing. This book was not an easy read.
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Gupta and Nusswan regarding the Emergency and its effect on trade unions, in the derision of Beggarmaster and the guilty conscience of Sergeant Kesar. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Such a Long Journey Vintage International.
This tragic element is probably what struck me the strongest in this second novel by Mistry that I read. She still mourns the death of her husband taken from rohingon in a freakish accident many years ago. Hence started my journey of a fine book, A Fine Balance.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of balnce human spirit in an inhuman state. Dina Dalal, a widow trying to live independently of her overbearing brother, and Maneck Kohlah, a congenial college student and her sub-tenant, are from the relatively well-off Parsi community. A simple solution for both situations is found when Maneck moves into her home as a temporary boarder.
The lives of the four become interwined as they live together and transcends from the cycle of love, hate and love again. This book was recommended by a friend who lived in India during the s and said that it portrayed the culture accurately.
The whirlpool of corrupt and brutal politics, the inhumane caste system, ethnic hatred, sexual abuses, abject poverty and social despair gives the narrative a pulsating realism that keeps rohintoon reader well-grounded in its authenticity.
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I got attached to the main characters and rooted for them during their challenges. The story of four protagonists in the novel looks like an arbitrary selection, as if the author had been in a pursuit of finding a constant for the ever-befuddling equation of misery and despair among the common-place Indians during emergency.
On city, one village, one town, three families - this is the tight canvas in which Mistry paints, or rather, is the quilt that he weaves. No name of ownership or penned notes showed anywhere or any other sign the book hand been read in another's hands. Eboo was haunted by them both.
View all 17 comments. Edited by Clean Up Bot. It is a recipe for disaster born out of desperation. Mistry makes you feel sad for a reason.
Familiar characters and situations. Can we dare to see ourselves in Nusswan? I will not take for granted my rights and protections.
There is no hope of bettering oneself, and most actually find their situation deteriorating instead of improving. While the politicians are playing their high stakes games, it is the simple people who suffer the consequences and must deal with balabce corruption, crippling poverty, sectarian violence, old social taboos that are deeply entrenched in the fabric of the country.
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On a good day I can read thirty pages. Again with the "wow". I stayed up all night to finish this book, because the climax is simply unputdownable. The life, as it seems, has no prospect, he thought.
And in the end, as Maneck Kohlah said, everything ended badly. Dina Dalal, affectionately called Aunty by her flatmates, is a widow from a bwlance rich Parsi family in Mumbai, who lives in a much desired controlled rent apartment. I sit here embroiled. The result is a snapshot of a country that has always fascinated me for its conflict and its contradictions.
Dina's tale is more personal and more gendered, but it is also a story about family and independence.
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