{"product_id":"a-fine-balance-9781400030651","title":"A Fine Balance","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, \u003cb\u003eA Fine Balance\u003c\/b\u003e creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400030651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/05\/2013 pg. 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/05\/2014 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e56456 \/ Fine Balance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.8 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 36\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rohinton Mistry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36649396469916,"sku":"9781400030651","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f8819d0b-0114-4d27-9be2-19bfb65b083e.jpg?v=1603872649","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-fine-balance-9781400030651","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}