Résultats pour "Balance Is Key" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST “Monumental . . . Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry.”—Pico Iyer, Time WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, AND GILLER PRIZE With a...