In the prologue, the three male characters are on a train and heading to a crowded city by the sea. The blending of characters and politics, past and present, is a fair representation of the many ethnicities, religions, cultures, politics and languages that make India one of the most diverse nations on earth. Although the action jumps in time from 1975 to the past and back again, the novel is far from chaotic. Between the biographical chapters, Mistry intersperses chapters where the main characters are working and living together. The prologue presents all the main characters for the first time afterwards each character is given more focused attention in the novel's sixteen chapters. Most of A Fine Balance takes place in 1975, but the novel also offers a brief glimpse of the mid-1980s in the epilogue, and earlier parts of the twentieth century, as it explores the histories of modern India and of each major character. A Fine Balance is the story of four people who meet, live and work in a large, overcrowded city and desperately struggle to survive in the face of intense hardships.
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