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A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
I loved the period description of India, and saw quite a bit of present-day India in the book. It started out well, and did a great job intertwining the lives of the characters, but I felt that it became a bit labored and then fizzled to an end on a pile of increasingly unlikely coincidences.
Yes, it's as depressing as everyone says, but it could have ended 75 pages earlier. At the end, it seems like the author was just trying as hard as he could to depress you... like that old Saturday Night Live sketch where the talk-show host went to any length to make his interview subjects cry.
Worth a read, but I'm just not as impressed as everyone else seems to be.
Yes, it's as depressing as everyone says, but it could have ended 75 pages earlier. At the end, it seems like the author was just trying as hard as he could to depress you... like that old Saturday Night Live sketch where the talk-show host went to any length to make his interview subjects cry.
Worth a read, but I'm just not as impressed as everyone else seems to be.