1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner

A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
With 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 governme…
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Shortlist

About Schmidt: A Novel
Louis Begley

Every Man for Himself
Beryl Bainbridge

Open Heart: A Novel
A.B. Yehoshua

Santa Evita
Tomás Eloy Martinéz

Ship Fever and Other Stories
Andrea Barrett

The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
