A Suitable Boy A Novel
by Vikram Seth
Paperback
Rs 3076
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Request this book.| Genre: | Literature |
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| Language: | English |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780060786526 |
| ISBN10: | 0060786523 |
| Pages: | 1488 |
| Dimensions: | 5.31 x 8.0 x 2.38 inches |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Published: | October 04, 2005 |
| Edition: | 8 |
About the Book
Now a television series on Acorn TV, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair“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.