A Fine Balance
Synopsis
In mid-1970s India, a "State of Internal Emergency" has been declared. In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, Ishvar and Omprakash Darji, tailors who have been forced from their village into the city, and Maneck Kohlah, a young student from a hill-station near the Himalayas, are painfully constructing new lives which become entwined in circumstances no one could have foreseen.
Author Biography
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay in 1952. His debut novel, Such a Long Journey, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991 (and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governer General’s Award that year). His second novel, A Fine Balance, was shortlisted for the same prize in 1995. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Giller Prize that year. His third novel, Family Matters was shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Rohinton Mistry has lived in Canada since 1975.
