Kent answers “Why the title, A Fine Balance? For me...”

Earl asked this question about A Fine Balance:

Why the title, A Fine Balance? For me there was little balance between good and bad, between optimism and depression.

Kent The character who turns up three times in the novel, on the train with Maneck as he is going to the city, as the lawyer at the court house when Aunty …moreThe character who turns up three times in the novel, on the train with Maneck as he is going to the city, as the lawyer at the court house when Aunty trie to save her apartment, and finally as the assistant to the Bal (hair collector) answers the question. life is a balance between hope and despair, it moves to the left and rights, and sometimes stays upright. The people who succeed in balancing hope and despair are those who are able to reinvent themselves during time of change(less)

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