num_pages: 614
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 foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local detail; and, above all, compulsively readable.--back cover
language: English
title: A Fine Balance
titlecomplete: A Fine Balance
characters: Omprakash Darji, Nusswan Shroff, Thakur Dharamsi, Ashraf Chacha, Rustom Dalal, Rajaram, Beggar Master, Vasantrao Valmik, Ishvar Darji, Shankar, Dina Dalal, Maneck Kohlah
genres: Fiction, Historical, Indian Literature, Asia, Canada, India, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 146500
places: South Asia, Bombay, India, Mumbai
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: Faber and Faber