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" A fine balance : "
by Rohinton Mistry.
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BL
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966350
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b720720
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| Main Entry
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Mistry, Rohinton,1952-
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| Title & Author
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A fine balance : : a novel /\ by Rohinton Mistry.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Vintage International ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Vintage Books,, 1997.
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, ©1995
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603 pages ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0613557093
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: 0679446451
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: 0679776451
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: 9780613557092
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: 9780679446453
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: 9780679776451
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: 9781400030651
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| Notes
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"First published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1996."
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| Abstract
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A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
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Apartment houses, Fiction.
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City and town life, Fiction.
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Apartment houses, Fiction.
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Apartment houses.
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City and town life.
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City life, Fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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FICTION-- Historical.
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FICTION-- Literary.
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FICTION-- Sagas.
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Historical fiction.
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India, History, 1947-Fiction.
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India, History, Fiction.
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India.
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| Dewey Classification
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813.54
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PR9199.3.M494F56 1997
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Mistry, R.
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