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A fine balance

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.

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  • "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
  • "Ishvar and Omprakash, two tailors forced to leave their village for a city in economic chaos, share a flat in a fictionalized Bombay. Encountering a wonderfully vivid cast of characters, they struggle to survive in the social and political confusion of 1970s India."@en
  • "Reveals the lives of four flatmates in 1970s India shortly after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency.""@en
  • ""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"--Container."
  • "Two Untouchables from rural India, Ishvar Darji and his newphew, Omprakash, hope to rise above their caste roles by becoming tailors. Moving to Bombay, they struggle to earn their living in the troubled India of 1975 to 1984."
  • "Two Untouchables from rural India, Ishvar Darji and his nephew, Omprakash, hope to rise above their caste roles by becoming tailors. Moving to Bombay, they struggle to earn their living in the troubled India of 1975-1984."
  • "In the India of the mid-1970s, Indira Gandhi's government has just come to power. It institutionalizes corruption and arbitrary force, most oppressive to the poorest and weakest people under its sway. Against this backdrop, in an unnamed city by the sea, four people struggle to survive. Dina, Maneck, and two tailors, the Untouchables Om and Ishvar, who are sewing in Dina's service, undergo a series of reversals, punctuated only by small mocking advances, that start them on a trajectory towards unhappiness and despair. Yet, in choosing what they will do, they exhibit a basic dignity and humanity that belies their mistreatment as part of the underclass. By merely surviving until their load becomes unbearable."@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 inextricably intertwined."@en
  • "Two Untouchables from rural India, Ishvar Darji and his nephew, Omprakash, hope to rise above their caste roles by becoming tailors. Moving to Bombay, they struggle to earn their living in the troubled India of 1975 to 1984."@en
  • "It is India of the mid-1970s. Against this backdrop, in an unnamed city by the sea, four people struggle to survive."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
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  • "History"@en
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  • "A fine balance"
  • "A fine balance"@en
  • "A fine balance a novel"
  • "A fine balance a novel"@en
  • "A fine balance [talking book]"@en

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