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A fine balance : a novel

A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey

Print Book, English, 1997
First Vintage International edition
Vintage Books, New York, 1997