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    The Cry of the Sloth

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Suitable Boy

by Vikram Seth

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ISBN13: 9780060925000
ISBN10: 0060925000
Condition: Standard
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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, 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.
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lovingreader, July 7, 2009 (view all comments by lovingreader)
I read in the NYT that a sequel to A Suitable Boy is due out in 2012. This took me straight to the bookcase to take down my copy of A Suitable Boy - have to be ready, you know! This fabulous absorbing novel is even better the third time around.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060925000
Subtitle:
Novel, A
Author:
Seth, Vikram
Publisher:
Perennial
Location:
New York, NY :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
India
Subject:
History
Subject:
Indian literature
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
India History 1947- Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
1993
Edition Description:
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Series Volume:
93-01
Publication Date:
19940413
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
1488
Dimensions:
8.01x5.35x1.85 in. 2.13 lbs.
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