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.
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.
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小說是一個民族的秘史,是一個國傢隱形、細微的記錄。相較之下,不少教科書對一國一地的記載都大而無當,隻有枯燥的人名和冰冷的年代數字組成的機械事件,以及地名和物産的簡單羅列;而那些花花綠綠的旅遊書,很多則極盡個人抒情和拼命美化之能事,浮光掠影地走馬觀花,與真實...
評分文/橘川 (刊於《世界博覽》,2015第13期) 小的時候讀餘華的《活著》,幾次哽咽,對著書頁充滿疑惑:一個人在麵對苦難時,是否真的有“無限”的承受能力?當生命中的一切被剝奪而去,唯剩“活著”這個純粹的本質,人竟然還能發齣一種戲謔的笑聲,在我看來是偉大而又悲壯的。“...
評分 評分加拿大籍印度裔作傢羅因頓·米斯特裏的小說《微妙的平衡》中文版的封腰推薦語稱其為“印度版《活著》四重奏”,但讀完全書以後,我感覺《活著》根本不足以形容其厚重,或者稱其為印度版《悲慘世界》更為閤適與貼切,而且這種悲慘不是屬於某一個人的,而是屬於所有人的。 印度...
評分沒有看完,隻對看瞭部分評價。筆觸很細膩,政治背景若隱若現,建議看之前對印度當代史要有簡單瞭解。基本上正在告彆言情的部分,政治小說的模樣初見端倪。 作者筆下的德裏絕對不是我們印象中的那個城市,而是我們每人心目中傢鄉的樣子,充滿溫情。 看完瞭,花瞭很長的時間 ...
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評分Compendium of human misery. I see no balance.
評分以Dina、Maneck和兩個裁縫為代錶的主人公來自不同的階層,都曾經執拗的抱著夢想,對生活充滿憧憬,想要通過個人努力實現美好的生活,但在印度社會固有的階級思想和混亂發展過程中,他們雖然看到過希望,但最終夢想被一一擊碎,絕望而無奈的迴到自己的階級宿命。 The fine balance,所謂完美的平衡,就是低頭接受殘酷的現實!
評分讀過最慘的書,英迪拉·甘地執政時期印度底層民眾苦難史,跨越各個種姓,各個宗教。深深的無力和絕望,印度已爛到根裏。作者是信奉瑣羅亞斯德教的帕西人,一直以為該教隨著波斯王朝一起覆滅瞭
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