Journal Entry 1 by rootmartin from Marlborough, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, August 01, 2007

From back cover:

"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.

As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state." 

Journal Entry 2 by rootmartin from Marlborough, Massachusetts USA on Monday, September 24, 2007

Sent to msjoanna who chose this out of the passport to the world vbb on bookobsessed.com 

Journal Entry 3 by msjoanna from Columbia, Missouri USA on Friday, September 28, 2007

This has been on my wishlist for a while. Thanks for sharing it in the VBB. I look forward to reading it.