A Fine Balance Premio literatura rusa en España (2012) These vibrant recipes demystify Persian

These vibrant recipes demystify Persian ingredients like rose petals

In this stunning coming-of-age novel

a mythology has grown up around the family and its firms

and perhaps remain

Practical and insightful

A Fine Balance Premio literatura rusa en España (2012) These vibrant recipes demystify PersianSet in mid 1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local detail; and, above all, compulsively readable.