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| Title | : | A Fine Balance (Cánh Cửa Mở Rộng) |
| Author | : | Rohinton Mistry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 603 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 2001 by Vintage (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Horror. Fiction. Young Adult |
Rohinton Mistry
Paperback | Pages: 603 pages Rating: 4.36 | 120838 Users | 8547 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | A Fine Balance |
| ISBN: | 140003065X (ISBN13: 9781400030651) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Cánh Cửa Mở Rộng |
| Characters: | Maneck Kohlah, Omprakash Darji, Ishvar Darji, Dina Dalal, Rustom Dalal, Nusswan Shroff, Vasantrao Valmik, Thakur Dharamsi, Ashraf Chacha, Rajaram, Shankar, Beggar Master |
| Setting: | India,1975 Bombay,1975(India) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1996), Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1996), Scotiabank Giller Prize (1995), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1996), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (1996) CBC Canada Reads Nominee (2002), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (1997) |
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Ratings: 4.36 From 120838 Users | 8547 ReviewsCritique Of Books A Fine Balance (Cánh Cửa Mở Rộng)
This was life? Or a cruel joke? He no longer believed that the scales would ever balance fairly. If his pan was not empty, if there was some little sustenance in it for his days and nights, it was enough for him. This is one book that made me want to clutch the life I live, as some blanket of security, and hide within. I have never known what it is to live with such constant uncertainty. That one could be completely uprooted today, the next day, or any day. Each day of struggle, each day ofA man with paralyzed legs lies on his itchy straw bed, staring at the murky ceiling that seems closing in on him, as his eyes have been fixating it for too long. The time seems reluctant to move on as there is no sign of movements around him; the world seems to have divorced him. His room has no windows that rewarded him with a view of a green patch or a shimmering rivulet to vouch for his existence. The life, as it seems, has no prospect, he thought. As the bleak moments ostensibly passed, he,
Liking this book makes no sense. Not only are its characters subjected to like, the bleakest set of circumstances ever, but then those circumstances are presented to the reader with such an alarming degree of authorial detachment that you almost have to wonder whether Mistry himselffed up with the unending series of hardships his characters are required to enduredidnt just raise his arms in the air and say, Oh, fuck it. And yet I could not tear myself away from this train wreck.A Fine Balance
You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance. A Fine BalanceI sometimes take a moment to focus on the corner of my office. The way the two walls come together forming a line, a demarcation. I think of it as bringing
WOW. Beautiful. Haunting. Sad. Compelling. Interesting. Educational. This book covers the stories of four characters living in India during the mid-70s during a time in which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a State of Emergency and in its name, countless human rights violations were committed. I am not sure I can say much that would do this book proper justice. It certainly had what I refer to as The Linger Factor. After I finished it, I sat thinking about it for awhile. When I woke up at
3 "tragedy diminished by histrionics" stars !!I know this is a good book and that Mr. Mistry is an excellent writer. The use of language is mostly elegant, vivid and the stories interweave in a logical and natural way. There was not a dull moment to be had in this sprawling saga set in 1970s India. The characters were likable and their struggles are real, heart-wrenching and horrendous.I have a HUGE issue though with the presentation of the characters' emotional and psychological lives. Although
I have nothing but praise for this book. This is the book that makes me a reader. No matter how busy I am, I will always be a reader if the book that I have is similar to this. Take away my Facebook account. Take away the online games (Clash of Clans, Angry Bird, Plants Vs Zombies). Take away the television (The Voice Kids, Nathaniel, Pangako sa Yo). But give me this kind of book and I will be a happy camper. I can read all day and night in a corner and will not bother you even in a single
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