dansbooks 's review for:

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
4.0

I loved this novel - and having finished it am very surprised at many reviews I saw that described it as unremittingly bleak and depressing. While the main characters' situations are indeed grim, they're drawn so lovingly, and are hardly the kinds of depraved figures so common in this literature (though those do populate the book as well).