A Fine Balance

De: Rohinton Mistry

Narrado por: Vikas Adam

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.

©1995 Rohinton Mistry (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

A fabulous read

Possibly the best book I have ever read. Heartbreaking and warming in equal measure. Memorable!

what a gem

the entire human emotional gamut lives in every page of this extraordinary story. Narrated superbly! don't miss it

What a book!

A funny, sad, heartwarming, heartbreaking triumph! I loved the pictures, the sounds and the smells and emotions Rohinton’s writing brings to his readers.

wow

loved it...will miss all the character after finish. awesome story ...a nice book to listen

I came to this book blind. But loved it.

I have not to my shame heard of the book or the author. But I just loved it. It made me laugh a lot and almost cry. But as others have said despite the setting, the subject and the characters this book is of hope, friendship and family ties. Listening to it has enriched my life and understanding of a place I have never visited but now understand a little better.

Magnificent book

Simply wonderful. The narrator is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. No more words needed. Just listen, you won’t regret it.

Lost of words

I am full of sadness and will recover I know but the miseries of human life in scarcity of resources has turned my heart but worse is how human rights are violated and who is there if you have no one . Is that justice ? Is there god ? Yes there is or May be not …..
Story was so fine balanced and the narration excellent . Would like to listen more from Rohinton Mistry

Extraordinary, poignant, beautiful, heartbreaking

This book was recommended to me and after sitting in my Audible library for a few months, I finally started listenting. And oh my gosh, from the opening sentences on, I was hooked. Every spare moment I had, I would return to the worlds of the characters, finding myself exclaiming in pleasure, in shock, in reverence, and at times in horror and sadness. This is surely a masterpiece.

Heart-ripping

Brilliant storytelling. Brilliant narrator. The story will make you cry and crave for more.

Magnificent!

loved every moment if this complex intriguing account of the tragic lives of ordinary citizens and how their lives were woven together. victims of circumstances. wonderful narration brings the characters and scenes to life.