... love for one another. Unlike the earlier fiction, A Fine Balance goes outside the secure flat and beyond the city by the sea into the village of the two tailors and the idyllic mountain home of the student. These locales are rendered with the same care Mistry takes with city life. All too soon, though, the communal harmony of the four unlikely companions is shattered by the world outside the four walls that enclose and ... that he believes that novelists should go on asking, and asking" (6). It is true that Mistry answers this overriding question only indirectly. The old proofreader say...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... love for one another. Unlike the earlier fiction, A Fine Balance goes outside the secure flat and beyond the city by the sea into the village of the two tailors and the idyllic mountain home of the student. These locales are rendered with the same care Mistry takes with city life. All too soon, though, the communal harmony of the four unlikely companions is shattered by the world outside the four walls that enclose and ... that he believes that novelists should go on asking, and asking" (6). It is true that Mistry answers this overriding question only indirectly. The old proofreader say...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate