A fine balance : a novel
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- ISBN: 9781551991382 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1551991381 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 1997.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from READ title page (Overdrive, viewed Mar. 7, 2014) |
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Subject: | City and town life -- India -- Fiction Apartment houses -- India -- Fiction India -- History -- 1947- -- Fiction |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
A portrait of India featuring four characters who must survive the oppression, poverty, and mistreatment of Indira Gandhi's India of the mid 1970's. 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.