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SET IN MID-1970S INDIA, A SUBTLE AND COMPELLING NARRATIVE ABOUT FOUR UNLIKELY CHARACTERS WHO COME TOGETHER IN CIRCUMSTANCES NO ONE COULD HAVE FORESEEN SOON AFTER THE GOVERNMENT DECLARES A STATE OF INTERNAL EMERGENCY . IT IS A BREATHTAKING ACHIEVEMENT: PANORAMIC YET HUMANE, INTENSELY POLITICAL YET RICH WITH LOCAL DELIGHT.In 1975, in an unidentified Indian city, Mrs Dina Dalal, a financially pressed Parsi widow in her early 40s sets up a sweatshop of sorts in her ramshackle apartment. Determined to remain financially independent and to avoid a second marriage, she takes in a boarder and two Hindu tailors to sew dresses for an export company. As the four share their stories, then meals, then living space, human kinship prevails and the fou Read reviews for A Fine Balance
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