Fine Balance.

Suppose that you were reading a novel about the struggle of a group of people on the margins (economic, racial, religious margins) of society in Hitlers Berlin or Stalins Moscow, a novel written by a refugee; you wouldnt expect a particularly happy ending would you ? and somehow, even though Rohinton Mistry is a Parsi refugee from India, who moved to Canada in 1975 when Indira Ghandi say a State of Emergency and assumed sweeping powers, we scarce arent prepared for the moment when his narrative of life in Indiras India turns real dark. This really says more about our political naiveté when it comes to the Third orbit than it does about his plotting technique or his writing style. I pretend that for most readers, and I know it was true of me, theres a esthesis that oppressive totalitarianism is really only a catastrophe when it drags a developed Western nation back piling into barbarism--that for underdeveloped nations, such murderous misrule is pretty very much the normal state of things. Perhaps theres even some gradual imperialistic, racist olfactory sensationing that such backwards peoples are not capable of imposing the kind of all-encompassing, soul-killing, dictatorship that we find so horrifying when they descend on a Western populace, or that these long abused peoples, unused to freedom, can not feel its absence as profoundly as do we.



Rohinton Mistry disabuses us of such notions, quite forcefully.

A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city--I guess its supposed to be Bombay--in 1975. It centers just about the unlikely living arrangements of four characters who are forced by their strained economic circumstances to share an apartment. Dina Dilal is a widowman who has spent her life trying to escape her abusive and ballyrag brother, in a society where independent women are, to say the...

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