Un perfecto equilibrio / A Fine Balance (Paperback)
Language: Spanish
Published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2026
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Paperback. Esta obra maestra cuenta la vida de cuatro personas en la India de los anos setenta que, forzadas por la necesidad, aprenden a mantener un equilibrio perfecto entre la esperanza y la desesperacion.Estamos en 1975, en una ciudad india junto al mar. El gobierno acaba de declarar el estado de emergencia, y dada la escasez de vivienda cuatro personas se ven obligadas a compartir un pequeno apartamento. Forman un cuarteto especial: Dina, una costurera de cuarenta anos viuda desde hace veinte y decidida a no volverse a casar. Maneck, que dejo su pueblo de montana obligado por sus padres a abandonar el hogar para estudiar en la ciudad. El optimista Ishvar y su sobrino Omprakash, dos sastres que han huido de la terrible violencia de castas que existe en su pequena aldea de origen.Unidos solo por el hilo impersonal de la necesidad comun, estos cuatro personajes ven como sus vidas se entretejen de manera inexplicable e inseparable. La confianza, el humor y el afecto, que crecen gradualmente entre ellos, se convierten en un baluarte contra los rigores y las maquinaciones de la vida diaria, manteniendolos unidos tanto para lo bueno como para lo malo.Novela ganadora de los premios Giller, Commonwealth Writter y Los Angeles Times.Esta novela pertenece al #FondoDeEditor de Literatura Random HouseNi la injusticia, ni la pobreza, ni la desesperacion desplazan la belleza de esta historia atemporal y comprometida. Una novela a la que volver. Claudio Lopez LamadridENGLISH DESCRIPTIONLos Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, 1996With 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 of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state. La vida de cuatro personajes en la India de los anos setenta.Estamos en 1975, en una ciudad india junto al mar. El gobierno acaba de declarar el estado de emergencia, y dada la escasez de vivienda cuatro personas se ven obligadas a compartir un pequeno apartamento. Forman un cuarteto especial: Dina, una costurera de cuarenta anos viuda desde hace veinte y decidida a no volverse a casar. Maneck, que dejo su pueblo de montana obligado por sus padres a abandonar el hogar para estudiar en la ciudad. El optimista Ishvar y su sobrino Omprakash, dos sastres que han huido de la terrible violencia de castas que existe en su pequena aldea de origen. Unidos solo por el hilo impersonal de la necesidad comun, estos cuatro personajes ven como sus vidas se entretejen de manera inexplicable e inseparable. La confianza, el humor y el afecto, que crecen gradualmente entre ellos, se convierten en un baluarte contra los rigores y las maquinaciones de la vida diaria, manteniendolos unidos tanto para lo bueno como para lo malo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Un perfecto equilibrio / A Fine Balance (Paperback)
- Author
- Rohinton Mistry
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8439701985
- ISBN 13
- 9788439701989
Estamos en 1975, en una ciudad india junto al mar. El gobierno acaba de declarar el estado de emergencia, y dada la escasez de vivienda cuatro personas se ven obligadas a compartir un pequeño apartamento. Forman un cuarteto especial: Dina, una costurera de cuarenta años viuda desde hace veinte y decidida a no volverse a casar. Maneck, que dejó su pueblo de montaña obligado por sus padres a abandonar el hogar para estudiar en la ciudad. El optimista Ishvar y su sobrino Omprakash, dos sastres que han huido de la terrible violencia de castas que existe en su pequeña aldea de origen.
Unidos solo por el hilo impersonal de la necesidad común, estos cuatro personajes ven cómo sus vidas se entretejen de manera inexplicable e inseparable. La confianza, el humor y el afecto, que crecen gradualmente entre ellos, se convierten en un baluarte contra los rigores y las maquinaciones de la vida diaria, manteniéndolos unidos tanto para lo bueno como para lo malo.
Novela ganadora de los premios Giller, Commonwealth Writter y Los Angeles Times.
Esta novela pertenece al #FondoDeEditor de Literatura Random House
«Ni la injusticia, ni la pobreza, ni la desesperación desplazan la belleza de esta historia atemporal y comprometida. Una novela a la que volver.»
Claudio López Lamadrid
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About the Author
Su primer libro de relatos, Cuentos del Firozsha Baag (Literatura Random House, 2007), se publicó en Canadá en 1987 y posteriormente en Inglaterra en Faber & Faber. Es autor de tres novelas: Un viaje muy largo (Literatura Random House, 2003; obtuvo, entre otros galardones, el premio Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book of the Year y fue nominado para el Booker Prize en Gran Bretaña), Asuntos de familia (Literatura Random House, 2003) y Un perfecto equilibrio (Literatura Random House, 2007). Con esta última novela, Mistry fue finalista al Man Booker Prize y ganó el Giller Prize, el Commonwealth Writers Prize y el Los Angeles Times Prize.
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