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A fine balance [electronic resource] : a novel / by Rohinton Mistry. |
| Authors: | Mistry, Rohinton, 1952- |
| Call number: | DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK |
| Publisher: | New York : Vintage Books, [1996], c1995. |
| Publication date: | [1996], c1995. |
| Subject: |
Apartment houses -- India -- Fiction.
City and town life -- India -- Fiction. Downloadable e-books. India -- History -- 1947- -- Fiction. |
| Go to: | E-Book |
| Title: | A fine balance [electronic resource] : a novel / by Rohinton Mistry. |
| Physical description: | 1 online resource (575 p.) |
| Contents note: | City by the Sea -- For Dreams to Grow -- In a Village by a River -- Small Obstacles -- Mountains -- Day at the Circus, Night in the Slum -- On the Move -- Beautification -- What Law There Is -- Sailing Under One Flag -- The Bright Future Clouded -- Trace of Destiny -- Wedding, Worms, and Sanyas -- Return of Solitude -- Family Planning -- The Circle is Completed. |
| Notes: | This e-book purchase was made possible by gifts to the The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation from Friends of the Library and The Library Fund, a fund of the Indianapolis Foundation. |
| Summary note: | A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
| ISBN: | 9780307523631 (electronic bk.) 0307523632 (electronic bk.) |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1368460 |
| Bib No.: | 1368460 |
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