A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Children's Books on Immigration Constance is swept up in

Constance is swept up in the social whirl of Hazelbourne-on-Sea after she rescues the local baronet’s daughter

the quest tests their loyalty

is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic (that might garner international attention) in the West Bank

Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Children's Books on Immigration Constance is swept up inWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence