num_pages: 624
description: Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have forseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local detail; and, above all, compulsively readable.
language: English
title: A Fine Balance
titlecomplete: A Fine Balance
characters: Omprakash Darji, Beggar Master, Vasantrao Valmik, Nusswan Shroff, Maneck Kohlah, Rustom Dalal, Thakur Dharamsi, Ishvar Darji, Ashraf Chacha, Shankar, Rajaram, Dina Dalal
genres: Asia, Canada, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, India, Fiction
ratings_count: 146481
places: India, Mumbai, South Asia, Bombay
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book Overall, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: CBC Canada Reads, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Knopf