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    A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance"
    A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance"
    A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance"
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    A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance"

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    A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535816700
    A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance"

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      A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance" - Gale

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      A Fine Balance

      Rohinton Mistry

      1995

      Introduction

      Rohinton Mistry is an Indian Parsi writer now living in Canada. His second novel, A Fine Balance (1995), is set primarily in Bombay (Mumbai), India, and covers the state of emergency (1975–1977) declared by Indira Gandhi, through which she became a virtual dictator. Depicting the lives of four main characters who help each other survive the hardship experienced during this time, Mistry shows a broad spectrum of Indian society in fine realistic detail, from the city to a small village to a mountain hill station.

      Dina Dalal is a Parsi widow living in a rundown Bombay flat. She must take in a student border, Maneck, and two tailors from the Untouchable caste, Om and Ishvar, to work in her home business. With the help of young Maneck, Dina learns to overcome her prejudice against the lower-caste men, sympathizing with their terrible history. Mistry is not a sensationalist, but he does not withhold the tragic facts and details about the atrocities against the Untouchables and the terrorism of Gandhi's government.

      Mistry's fiction is realistic, set in historical periods or dealing with the postcolonial condition of Indians at home and abroad, having to cope with losing their traditions in modern society. Most of Mistry's plots occur in his native Parsi community in Bombay, focusing on individuals struggling to make sense of a world fragmenting around them. Mistry is known for his humanistic plea for tolerance and human solidarity. He is now recognized as a major migrant author of Canada, and his works have been translated into many world languages.

      Author Biography

      Mistry was born in Mumbai, India, on July 3, 1952, to Parsi parents, Behram Mistry, who worked for an advertising agency, and Freny Mistry. He has two brothers and a sister. The younger brother, Cyrus, is also a writer. Mistry was inspired by Indian art but was more in love with English literature, theater, and movies and American music. He played the guitar and harmonica as a member of a folk-rock band that played the songs of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel. Mistry is fluent in Hindi, Gujarati, and English.

      Mistry earned a degree in mathematics and economics from Bombay (Mumbai) University in 1973. In 1975, he migrated to Canada to join his fiancée, Freny Elavia, in Toronto, where they married the same year. He worked in a Toronto bank before returning to school at the University of Toronto to study English and philosophy. There he won two Hart House literary prizes. He published a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag, in 1987. His three subsequent novels, Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2002), were all shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Such a Long Journey was made into a 1998 film. Mistry published The Scream, a collection of short fiction,

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