In the canon
A Fine Balance
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1995
- Pages
- Pages 610
In India during a state of emergency, a widow taking in lodgers shelters two tailors fleeing caste violence and a student far from home, forming a fragile family. Brutality maims the tailors for life, and the news later breaks the student.
The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.