A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Hooter: Lives of four protagonists who meet by happenstance in pre Emergency India and the hopes and the DESPAIRS they go through.
I had heard of Rohinton but never got to any of his books till a strong reco from a friend to start off with this. It's the truth that is depicted under the guise of fiction as page after page, every glimmer of hope is crushed by despair. Yet you flip the pages that maybe now things will improve. Well structured, beautiful flow and lovely etched characters. You connect with each individual main or secondary as they take on each day with new hope. I'd term it as poetic injustice but as they say ," jeena isi ka naam hai". You simply go with the flow hoping the tides would change. If Gandhijis talisman was a book, this would be it. He captures a lot of social issues making it real for each of the characters.
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