A Suitable Boy (Modern Classics)
by Vikram Seth
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780060786526 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find — through love or through exacting maternal appraisal — a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, "A Suitable Boy" takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, "A Suitable Boy" remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.
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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Caitlin Tom, November 30, 2006 (view all comments by Caitlin Tom)
The jacket of my copy of this book quotes a London Times review that says "Make time for it. It will keep you company for the rest of your life." Nothing could be more true about this book. It is beautifully written and engaging, and the characters are so human that you are guaranteed to fall in love with half of them.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060786526
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial
- Author:
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- Romance - General
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- India
- Series:
- Modern Classics
- Publication Date:
- October 2005
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 1474
- Dimensions:
- 7.97x5.40x2.54 in. 2.44 lbs.










