A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry by Mistry, Rohinton

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

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 tog