A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryIn mid 1970s urban India a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, more reluctantly, Ishvar and Om, uncle and nephew tailors fleeing low caste origins and astonishing hardships. The reader first learns the characters'

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Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical

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What is more special than a pair of hand-knitted socks

[a] remarkable book

What do you do when the thing that could save you is what hurts the most

Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing's powerful words and David Hardy's pictures

'"A love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time

we also have the innate ability to awaken to and change the behaviours that no longer serve us

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With echoes of The Surgeon of Crowthorne as well as Oliver Twist