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By Rohinton Mistry (© 1995)
Read by John Lee (Brit.)
2001 Books on Tape, Inc.
Unabridged
Fiction > Fiction - Historical

Four people must survive the oppression, poverty, and mistreatment of Indira Gandhi's India of the mid 1970's. AudioFile Earphones Award.

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In the India of the mid-1970s, Indira Gandhi's government has just come to power. It institutionalizes corruption and arbitrary force, most oppressive to the poorest and weakest people under its sway. Against this backdrop, in an unnamed city by the sea, four people struggle to survive. Dina, Maneck, and two tailors, the Untouchables Om and Ishvar, who are sewing in Dina's service, undergo a series of reversals, punctuated only by small mocking advances, that start them on a trajectory towards unhappiness and despair. Yet, in choosing what they will do, they exhibit a basic dignity and humanity that belies their mistreatment as part of the underclass. By merely surviving until their load becomes unbearable, and then living on past that point, they have accomplished something.

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