Mumbai · 1995 · citedA Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Mistry never names the city by the sea, but its stations, promenade and slums are unmistakably 1970s Bombay, today's Mumbai. Under the 1975-77 Emergency the map runs from a great railway terminus and a seafront drive out to the pavement stretches and the bulldozed slum colony where two tailors, fleeing caste violence in an inland village, try to hold a life together.
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