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008 011206t19971995nyu 000 1 eng d
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040 _aJBW
_cJBW
_dLYG
050 0 0 _aPR9199.3.M494
_bF56 1996
100 1 _aMistry, Rohinton,
_d1952-
_930746
245 1 2 _aA fine balance :
_ba novel /
_cby Rohinton Mistry.
246 1 _aSelection of:
_iOprah's book club.
250 _a1st Vintage International ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bVintage Books,
_c1997, c1995.
300 _a603 p. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a"First published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1996."
520 _aA 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.
526 0 _aAccelerated Reader AR
_bUG
_c5.8
_d36.0
_z56456.
650 0 _aApartment houses
_vFiction.
_930747
650 0 _aCity and town life
_vFiction.
_930748
650 0 _aHistorical fiction.
_930749
650 0 _aDomestic fiction.
_930750
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
_y1947-
_vFiction.
_930751
942 _2ddc
_cBK
999 _c111930
_d111930