A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry is considered to be one of the foremost authors of Indian heritage writing in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry belongs to the Parsi Zoroastrian religious minority.Mistry’s first novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), brought him national and international recognition. Mistry’s subsequent novels have achieved the same level of recognition as his first. His second novel, A Fine Balance (1995), concerns four people from Bombay who struggle with family and work against the backdrop of the political unrest in India during the mid-1970s. The book won Canada’s Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Booker Prize.

出版者:Emblem Editions

作者:Rohinton Mistry

页数:736

出版时间:1997-4-5

价格:CAD 24.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780771060540

图书标签:印度文学外国文学小说原版小说种姓制度Rohinton_Mistry经典

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.

读后感

经历巨变之后的人生是否就意味着对世事渐渐麻木，比如不屑诗文，罔顾风物，美人在侧亦不为所动？唯念着心中的愿望，甚至懒于遮遮掩掩、包包藏藏的含蓄，将之灌溉成连当事人本身都兴趣缺缺的执念？寥寥几笔写不尽伊什瓦一生的辛酸，但是在蒂娜家时，无论是最开始的互相猜忌，还...  

没有看完，只对看了部分评价。笔触很细腻，政治背景若隐若现，建议看之前对印度当代史要有简单了解。基本上正在告别言情的部分，政治小说的模样初见端倪。 作者笔下的德里绝对不是我们印象中的那个城市，而是我们每人心目中家乡的样子，充满温情。 看完了，花了很长的时间 ...  

用户评价

以Dina、Maneck和两个裁缝为代表的主人公来自不同的阶层，都曾经执拗的抱着梦想，对生活充满憧憬，想要通过个人努力实现美好的生活，但在印度社会固有的阶级思想和混乱发展过程中，他们虽然看到过希望，但最终梦想被一一击碎，绝望而无奈的回到自己的阶级宿命。 The fine balance，所谓完美的平衡，就是低头接受残酷的现实！

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600多页读到吐血，中译本700多页。是好书，谁又不是时代浪潮下的细沙呢，人生真的太苦了，即使每个人都是被命运摆弄的棋子，出身好坏还是决定了一切，保持善良都那么无力。一开始觉得像印度版的平凡的世界，但这世界一直在变差。满纸荒唐言，一把辛酸泪，最可贵的要数maneck的幽默了

600多页读到吐血，中译本700多页。是好书，谁又不是时代浪潮下的细沙呢，人生真的太苦了，即使每个人都是被命运摆弄的棋子，出身好坏还是决定了一切，保持善良都那么无力。一开始觉得像印度版的平凡的世界，但这世界一直在变差。满纸荒唐言，一把辛酸泪，最可贵的要数maneck的幽默了