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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

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A Fine Balance Information
579 words, approx. 2 pages
A Fine Balance is the third book by Rohinton Mistry. Set in Mumbai, India between 1975 and 1977 during the turmoil of The Emergency, a period of expanded government power and crackdowns on civil liberties, this book is about four characters from varied...


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The Economist (US)
A Fine Balance.
04/20/1996: 1,132 words, approx. 4 pages
MOMENTOUS times, momentous events, momentous fictions. In Victorian England, in pre-revolutionary Russia, in depressed America, in contemporary South America, it is the fiction writers who tell "the truth". People should trust novelists against historians, trust the human imagination against statistics, facts and political...
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Dental Products Report
A fine balance
08/01/2006: 476 words, approx. 2 pages
The profession and the industry. Each is indispensable to the other. Now that I have established myself as master of the obvious, here are some observations. Most estimates put the number of dentists worldwide at about 1 million. * DPR's database of...
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AP News
Presidential camps spend more than ever
3/14/2007: 1,218 words, approx. 4 pages
Mitt Romney is buying $800,000 in television air time. Candidates are purchasing voter lists in the early states _ $100,000 for the Iowa Democratic Party's list and $60,000 for the South Carolina version. And the entire presidential field is buying jet fuel by the planeload.At...
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The New York Observer
Sigourney In 3-D
4/8/2007: 1,321 words, approx. 4 pages
“If someone had a gun to my head and said, ‘Define yourself,’ I’d have to just start by saying, ‘I’m a New Yorker,’” said Sigourney Weaver. “Whatever that means.” The 57-year-old actress was waxing poetic about her city of birth and current residence last Friday...
 


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Critical Essay by Beverly Schneller
8,707 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Schneller considers two novels—Gita Mehta's Raj and Mistry's A Fine Balance—and their authors' respective shaping of historical fact for their narratives.
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Critical Essay by Hilary Mantel
3,392 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Mantel assesses A Fine Balance as a political novel at its core—one overtly critical of the political forces in India.
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Critical Essay by Laura Moss
3,226 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Moss explores Mistry's realistic style, comparing it with the magic realism increasingly evident in South American novels.
 
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Change and Adaptation, A Comparative Analysis
1,174 words, approx. 4 pages
Compares the novels A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry, The Village by the Sea, by Anita Desai and Anna and the King, 2000 version (Film). Examines each body of work for the themes of change and adaptation. Reveals how each author uses repetition to reinforce those themes.


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