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.
买这本书纯属偶然,那天在Chennai机场,选了两本新出的印度商业书籍后,看到了这本大名鼎鼎的 A Fine Balance. 印度主题的小说中,这本算是综合评价及阅读人数皆数一数二的畅销作品,可惜Fiction不是我的菜,只是犹犹豫豫地翻了一会,结帐的时候,书店伙计突然插嘴说:“其实...
评分文/橘川 (刊于《世界博览》,2015第13期) 小的时候读余华的《活着》,几次哽咽,对着书页充满疑惑:一个人在面对苦难时,是否真的有“无限”的承受能力?当生命中的一切被剥夺而去,唯剩“活着”这个纯粹的本质,人竟然还能发出一种戏谑的笑声,在我看来是伟大而又悲壮的。“...
评分没有看完,只对看了部分评价。笔触很细腻,政治背景若隐若现,建议看之前对印度当代史要有简单了解。基本上正在告别言情的部分,政治小说的模样初见端倪。 作者笔下的德里绝对不是我们印象中的那个城市,而是我们每人心目中家乡的样子,充满温情。 看完了,花了很长的时间 ...
评分对生活的忍耐和抗争 文/米雪 有句话的好:“人生就是一场对种种困难的无尽无休的斗争一场以寡敌众的斗争,在这个世...
评分小说是一个民族的秘史,是一个国家隐形、细微的记录。相较之下,不少教科书对一国一地的记载都大而无当,只有枯燥的人名和冰冷的年代数字组成的机械事件,以及地名和物产的简单罗列;而那些花花绿绿的旅游书,很多则极尽个人抒情和拼命美化之能事,浮光掠影地走马观花,与真实...
Still prefer God of Small Things
评分印度 !印度!
评分读完以后心里很难受。对于om和ish来说,活着比死了更难受。啊啊啊啊...真的看得好难受。
评分读完以后心里很难受。对于om和ish来说,活着比死了更难受。啊啊啊啊...真的看得好难受。
评分以Dina、Maneck和两个裁缝为代表的主人公来自不同的阶层,都曾经执拗的抱着梦想,对生活充满憧憬,想要通过个人努力实现美好的生活,但在印度社会固有的阶级思想和混乱发展过程中,他们虽然看到过希望,但最终梦想被一一击碎,绝望而无奈的回到自己的阶级宿命。 The fine balance,所谓完美的平衡,就是低头接受残酷的现实!
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