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"Set in mid-1970s India, this novel tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency." Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry's prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. The book has won the Giller Prize and numerous international awards, as well as being selected for Oprah's Book Club."@en
"The setting of Mistry's quietly magnificent second novel (after the acclaimed Such a Long Journey) is India in 1975-76, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, defying a court order calling for her resignation, declares a state of emergency and imprisons the parliamentary opposition as well as thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and journalists. These events, along with the government's forced sterilization campaign, serve as backdrop for an intricate tale of four ordinary people struggling to survive. Naive college student Maneck Kohlah, whose parents' general store is failing, rents a room in the house of Dina Dalal, a 40-ish widowed seamstress. Dina acquires two additional boarders: hapless but enterprising itinerant tailor Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash, whose father, a village untouchable, was murdered as punishment for crossing caste boundaries."@en
"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."
"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."@en
"In India during the mid-1970s, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four very different people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence--find their lives becoming inextricable intertwined."@en
"A story set in modern India of four desperate people - a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew - who become linked in a struggle between hope and despair."@en
"India 1975-76. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, defying a court order calling for her resignation, declares a state of emergency and imprisons the parliamentary opposition as well as thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and journalists. These events, along with the government's forced sterilization campaign, serve as backdrop for an intricate tale India's heroic working poor. In an unnamed city by the sea, four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - are thrust together, sharing a squalid apartment, coping with corruption, social anarchy and bureaucratic absurdities."@en
"With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
"The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed Indian city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. The days that follow bring new forms of degradation and misery to vie with resilience and stubborn hope in the daily lives of the people, four of whom are compelled by a housing shortage to share one cramped apartment. With no common background and only the most impersonal threads of common need, these four find their lives becoming unexpectedly but inextricably entwined, their growing trust, humor, and affectionate interdependence establishing a bulwark against the hardships and torturous machinations of daily life under the Emergency, holding them together, finally, for both better and worse."@en
"Purchased through an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant."@en
"A novel set in India during the Emergency. In the tiny flat of the widowed seamstress Dina Dalal, two tailors and a young student struggle to put together a new life of sorts amid the crisis, and in the course of doing so encounter a vivid cast of characters. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey."
"The eagerly awaited novel from the author of the award-winning Such a Long Journey is set in India in the mid-1970s. A "State of Internal Emergency" has been declared, and in the days of bleakness and hope that follow, four disparate people find their lives becoming unexpectedly and inextricably entwined."
"A portrait of India featuring four characters who must survive the oppression, poverty, and mistreatment of Indira Gandhi's India of the mid 1970's. 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."
"A portrait of India featuring four characters who must survive the oppression, poverty, and mistreatment of Indira Gandhi's India of the mid 1970's. 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."@en
"A tale of cruelty, political thuggery, and despair set in India in 1975. The story tells of strangers forced to share one cramped apartment: two tailors who are forcibly sterilized, a student who emigrates, and a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on."@en
"A cloth bag containing nine copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."@en
"India, 1975, and a callous government has declared a State of Emergency. In these uncertain times Dina Dalal -- a spirited Parsi widow determined to avoid a second marriage -- takes a student boarder and two Hindu tailors into her ramshackle flat. As the cruel policies of slum clearances and enforced birth control bring chaos to the city, the four strangers, whose lives have become inextricably linked, find themselves crossing divides of caste, class and religion to form the most unexpected of friendships."@en
"Winner of the 1995 Giller Prize."@en
"With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state."
"Wederwaardigheden van een aantal mensen uit de lagere Indiase kasten in de tijd dat Indira Ghandi de noodtoestand heeft afgekondigd."

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"Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945"
"Electronic books"@en
"Tekstuitgave"
"Historical fiction"
"Historical fiction"@en
"Romans (teksten)"
"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Belletristische Darstellung"@en
"Powieść indyjska w języku angielskim"@pl
"Powieść indyjska w języku angielskim"
"Drama"@en
"Popular literature"
"Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
"Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
"Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
"Anglické romány"
"Domestic drama"@en
"Domestic fiction"
"Domestic fiction"@en
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"History"
"History"@en
"Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise"

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"En hårfin balane"@da
"Un perfecto equilibrio"
"Un perfecto equilibrio"@es
"Een wankel evenwicht"
"Bārīka santulana"
"A fine balance : a novel"@en
"A fine balance : a novel"
"Chŏkchŏrhan kyunhyŏng : Rohint'ŏn Misŭt'ŭri changp'yŏn sosŏl = A fine balance"
"A Fine Balance (Oprah book)"@en
"A Fine balance"
"L'équilibre du monde : roman"
"A fine balance : [a novel]"
"Delikatna równowaga"@pl
"Un equilibri perfecte"
"Leptē isorropia"
"A Fine Balance"@en
"A Fine Balance"
"India, India : [regény]"@hu
"微妙的平衡 = a fine balance"
"L'équilibre du monde"
"Fine Balance"
"Cân bằng mong manh"
"A fine balance"@en
"A fine balance"
"Das gleichgewicht der welt"
"Občutljivo ravnovesje"@sl
"A Fine balance : a novel"
"Wei miao de ping heng = a fine balance"
"Wei miao de ping heng"
"Das Gleichgewicht der Welt Roman"
"Das Gleichgewicht der Welt : Roman"
"A fine balance a novel"
"A fine balance a novel"@en
"India, India"
"En hårfin balance"@da
"En hårfin balance"
"Křehká rovnováha"
"En ömtålig balans"
"L'Equilibre du monde : roman"
"En ömtålig balans : roman"@sv
"Un Perfecto equilibrio"
"L'Equilibre du monde"@en
"L'Equilibre du monde"
"A fine balance: a novel"@en
"微妙的平衡"
"A fine balance : [novel]"
"Balansekunst"
"Un perfetto equilibrio"
"Un perfetto equilibrio"@it
"L'équilibre du monde roman"
"Izun ʻadin"

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