Fine balance (20th anniv edn)

20th Anniversary Edition: India in the 1970s; it tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances become linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, it’s a powerful novel written with compassion and humour, by one of the most gifted writers of our time.