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@TheBookerPrizes chair of judges, Carmen Callil’s
#TimeForTheBooker recommendation is Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance. She says it is one of the best novels she’s ever read since she first read David Copperfield when she was 10. Now she’s 81.
For this particular time, contemplating the number of great novels chosen by Booker Prize judges over the years, Carmen looked for the great storytellers, the writers who had a touch of Dickens about them, who, from the very first page, introduce you to a world and its human beings whose lives immediately become part of your imagination and heart.
Though it is set in an unnamed town by the sea In India , and not in the coastal towns of England which Dickens made his own, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance produces magic and writes about justice and injustice too.
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