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A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
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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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the entire human emotional gamut lives in every page of this extraordinary story. Narrated superbly! don't miss it

what a gem

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A funny, sad, heartwarming, heartbreaking triumph! I loved the pictures, the sounds and the smells and emotions Rohinton’s writing brings to his readers.

What a book!

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Possibly the best book I have ever read. Heartbreaking and warming in equal measure. Memorable!

A fabulous read

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Rohinton Mistry paints a vivid, aching portrait of life in India during the Emergency, weaving together four lives bound by poverty, politics, and pain.

The character work is flawless. The prose? Beautiful. The humanity? Deep and unflinching. You fall in love with these characters not because they’re perfect, but because they’re trying. They hope, they laugh, they endure.

And then… that ending.
What. The. Hell.

This book broke me slowly and then shattered me completely

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loved it...will miss all the character after finish. awesome story ...a nice book to listen

wow

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I have not to my shame heard of the book or the author. But I just loved it. It made me laugh a lot and almost cry. But as others have said despite the setting, the subject and the characters this book is of hope, friendship and family ties. Listening to it has enriched my life and understanding of a place I have never visited but now understand a little better.

I came to this book blind. But loved it.

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This book was recommended to me and after sitting in my Audible library for a few months, I finally started listenting. And oh my gosh, from the opening sentences on, I was hooked. Every spare moment I had, I would return to the worlds of the characters, finding myself exclaiming in pleasure, in shock, in reverence, and at times in horror and sadness. This is surely a masterpiece.

Extraordinary, poignant, beautiful, heartbreaking

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Brilliant storytelling. Brilliant narrator. The story will make you cry and crave for more.

Heart-ripping

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loved every moment if this complex intriguing account of the tragic lives of ordinary citizens and how their lives were woven together. victims of circumstances. wonderful narration brings the characters and scenes to life.

Magnificent!

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But these characters experience the full measure of the balance or imbalance... it is a moving tale of what life in India was for most middle /lower class citizens during the turbulent ‘70’s ... well told, well developed characters and a full circle story. It is WELL WORTH your time and credit!!!

Life is SUCH a fine balance

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