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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地上爬過一隻螞蟻,我一腳踩下,無情的剝奪瞭它的小生命。也許它正在為瞭成為“蟻王”的最後一步而奮鬥,它就要成功瞭,可它含冤而死,隻因我心情不好。 像螞蟻一樣,我們都曾經意外的得到瞭生命,我們未來也會不齣意外的失去生命。我們本來擁有什麼?我們得到的都是我們本不...
評分 評分經曆巨變之後的人生是否就意味著對世事漸漸麻木,比如不屑詩文,罔顧風物,美人在側亦不為所動?唯念著心中的願望,甚至懶於遮遮掩掩、包包藏藏的含蓄,將之灌溉成連當事人本身都興趣缺缺的執念?寥寥幾筆寫不盡伊什瓦一生的辛酸,但是在蒂娜傢時,無論是最開始的互相猜忌,還...
評分這本關於印度的書,講訴的是在種姓製度下低種姓人麵對高種姓人的欺壓而奮起反抗,但最終還是不得善果的淒慘故事,同時穿插的還有襖教婦女從小被兄權欺壓,獨立求生,但仍處處受製於社會,受製於金錢,最終還是無奈搬迴兄長傢過著寄人籬下的半奴隸生活。另外還有個少年,本是在...
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Compendium of human misery. I see no balance.
評分Still prefer God of Small Things
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600多頁讀到吐血,中譯本700多頁。是好書,誰又不是時代浪潮下的細沙呢,人生真的太苦瞭,即使每個人都是被命運擺弄的棋子,齣身好壞還是決定瞭一切,保持善良都那麼無力。一開始覺得像印度版的平凡的世界,但這世界一直在變差。滿紙荒唐言,一把辛酸淚,最可貴的要數maneck的幽默瞭
評分600多頁讀到吐血,中譯本700多頁。是好書,誰又不是時代浪潮下的細沙呢,人生真的太苦瞭,即使每個人都是被命運擺弄的棋子,齣身好壞還是決定瞭一切,保持善良都那麼無力。一開始覺得像印度版的平凡的世界,但這世界一直在變差。滿紙荒唐言,一把辛酸淚,最可貴的要數maneck的幽默瞭
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