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"Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence.

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's--and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra's--attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, this compelling story takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves.



About the Author :
Vikram Seth has written acclaimed books in several genres: verse novel, The Golden Gate; travel book, From Heaven Lake; animal fables, Beastly Tales; epic fiction, A Suitable Boy. His most recent novel, An Equal Music, was published in 1999. He lives in England and India.

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"Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"Enormously varied, unfailingly interesting, funny, sad, exasperating and appealing, this novel becomes a real passage to India." - Atlantic Monthly
"Awe . . . is what Seth's labor inspires in the reader. In the end it is as if one had listened to a raag played by a musician with skill, dexterity, and charm." - Anita Desai, New York Review of Books
"[Seth is] passionately concerned to offer his Western readers as thick--and as multilayered--a slice of Indian life in the 1950s as this huge novel can hold . . . Lavishly detailed . . . lovingly recounted." - New York Times Book Review
"A huge, fulsome novel . . . [with] surprising depths . . . What makes the book special is the wit and whimsy that inform its pages." - Chicago Tribune
"The novel casts a fine spell. . . . As you turn page after quiet page . . . what you're doing gradually passes beyond reading. It becomes an involuntary act, like breathing." - Newsweek
"A Suitable Boy provides that rarest of books, a literary tour de force as pleasant as it is unpretentious . . . a book as suitable for the scholar's nightstand as it is for any restful and enriching summer vacation." - USA Today
"A magnificent display of artistic control. . . . A Suitable Boy is a page-turner...that pays the reader back and richly." - Los Angeles Times
"A vivid tapestry of Indian life in the early 1950s . . . [Seth's] characters are captivating . . . They linger in the mind like old friends." - People
"Spellbinding . . . Patterned after the massively populated nineteenth-century social novels of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, A Suitable Boy is as vast and teeming as its subject, India." - San Francisco Chronicle


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780060786526
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Height: 202 mm
  • No of Pages: 1488
  • Series Title: 156 Perennial Classics
  • Weight: 1115 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0060786523
  • Publisher Date: 04 Oct 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 62 mm
  • Width: 138 mm


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