A fine balance : a novel /
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
A fine balance : a novel / Oprah's book club. Selection of: by Rohinton Mistry. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1997, c1995. - 603 p. ; 21 cm.
"First published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1996."
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
140003065X 0679776451
95049317
Apartment houses--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
India--History--1947---Fiction.
PR9199.3.M494 / F56 1996
A fine balance : a novel / Oprah's book club. Selection of: by Rohinton Mistry. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1997, c1995. - 603 p. ; 21 cm.
"First published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1996."
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
140003065X 0679776451
95049317
Apartment houses--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
India--History--1947---Fiction.
PR9199.3.M494 / F56 1996