Maybe this review, about exploitation as much as anything, should have stayed on this site...http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/a-fine-balance-by-rohinton-mistry/(I am told some sort of word minimum is necessary on this site. In order to conform....rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb ...
This is merely a rating change!I have to up my rating to 5 stars for this. I see I didn't do a proper review of it here, but I did talk about it in my review of The White Tiger here, to which I now see I gave 5 stars. I can't let this one stay at 4--that would just not be right.This probably viola...
The fine balance being referred to in the title is between hope and despair. Unfortunately it left me with more despair than hope. Nevertheless, the small glimmer of hope that does appear is most precious in contrast to its surrounding despair.Most of what I previously knew of life in India is wha...
Read this age ago but still remembered some of the details. It was deprsssing and the main chracters just accepted it as fate made me really angry at their religion, a form of Hindism. Anyone, the book is fine, but it was about poverty, caste system and really desperate people doing all the right th...
Wow, what an amazing story. This was our book club discussion for September, but I thought I'd start early because it's 800+ pages. Turns out that I finished a month early! The book was impossible to put down, with a fantastic storyline intertwining the lives of four people. The book also had a ...
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