A Fine Balance

1 About this book

A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's eagerly awaited second novel and follows his critically acclaimed Such a Long Journey, the book that won three prestigious literary awards in 1991. Set in India in the mid-1970s, A Fine Balance is a richly textured novel which sweeps the reader up into its special world.

Large in scope, the narrative focuses on four unlikely people who come together in a flat in the city soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency." Through days of bleakness and hope, their lives become entwined in circumstances no one could have foreseen.

Good for readers who want: literary fiction, historical fiction, and a long read.

• Literary fiction
• Historical fiction
• India in fiction
• India
• Suicide
• City and town life in fiction
• Apartment houses
• City and town life