A Fine Balance

An Oprah's Book Club selection. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction, the Giller Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize as well as a Booker Prize finalist. Set in India in 1975 in an unnamed city by the sea during thetime of a government-declared State of Emergency, four strangers are thrust together to share an uncertain future,in a novel that boldly captures the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. 603p. Pap.