本书是当代加拿大籍印度裔作家罗因顿·米斯特里的小说作品。小说以1975年混乱而充满压迫的印度为背景。一个拒绝再嫁、艰苦谋生的美丽寡妇，一个无法融入城市大学生活的山区少年，一对在种姓冲突的灭门惨案中幸存下来的伯侄，四个人聚到同一个屋檐之下。从猜疑，到磨合，他们在令人喘不过气的窘迫困苦下产生了家人般的情感。然而每当生命才刚透出些许光明，错误的选择、无情的命运、可怕的事情一再接踵而来。有时候能活着就足以让人热泪盈眶。生命就是在希望和绝望之间寻找微妙的平衡。小说通过四个主人公和他们周围的人的经历，串起了印度数十年的风云变幻，写出了大时代背景中小人物艰苦求生的辛酸历程和他们乐观的生命态度。本书曾经获得加拿大最高文学奖吉勒奖，英联邦作家最佳图书奖、洛杉矶时报小说奖等，并入围布克奖、IMPAC都柏林文学奖、爱尔兰时报国际小说奖等，《每日电讯报》评选的“十大亚洲小说”中本书位列第二位，仅次于《红楼梦》。
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.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
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