内容説明
A novel set in India during the Emergency, by the author of "Such a Long Journey". In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, two tailors and a young student struggle to put together a new life of sorts amid the crisis, and in the course of doing so encounter a vivid cast of characters.
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Set in 1975 amid the political and social turbulence of the times, Rohinton Mistry's novel is the Indian
Les Misérables, where misfortunes multiply and a drop of good luck has to last a long time. One character says the secret to life is "to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair." That's the challenge all of Mistry's characters face, and the novel ultimately manages the same fine balance, heaping bad luck on top of misfortune until you think you can read no further, then enticing you on with a smidgen of reprieve, only to douse the glimmer in another outrage against humanity.
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