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Frommer's is packed with completely up-to-date practical information

these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns

to the present day and her position as one of the world's best-loved novelists

and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post-revolutionary era and a provocative inquiry into the nature of Chinese modernity

A Fine Balance Condition:Good a car breaks downSet 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.