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A fine balance : a novel
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A fine balance : a novel

Author: Rohinton Mistry
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Historical fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Fine balance.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996
(OCoLC)604068492
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rohinton Mistry
ISBN: 0679446087 9780679446088 0375414819 9780375414817
OCLC Number: 33819149
Description: 603 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: by Rohinton Mistry.
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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.

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