{"product_id":"a-fine-balance-oprahs-book-club","title":"A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall\nthe work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty\nand corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is\nan unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of\nEmergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student\nuprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste\nviolence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one\ncramped apartment and an uncertain future.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to\nlove, \u003cb\u003eA Fine Balance\u003c\/b\u003e creates an enduring panorama of the human\nspirit in an inhuman state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and now lives near\nToronto. His first novel, \u003cb\u003eSuch a Long Journey\u003c\/b\u003e, was shortlisted for\nthe Booker Prize and received, among other awards, the Governor General's Award\nand the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book of the Year. \u003cb\u003eA Fine\nBalance\u003c\/b\u003eis his second novel, winner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook\nPrize in Fiction, the Giller Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize as well\nas a Booker Prize finalist. Mistry is also the author of \u003cb\u003eSwimming\nLessons\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636097511631,"sku":"9781400030651","price":33.25,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_26c47407-a187-404d-b92f-844d084a3a0c.jpg?v=1761104306","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/a-fine-balance-oprahs-book-club","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}