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A Suitable Boy

Classic Bestseller

By: Vikram Seth

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Paperback | 13 October 2020 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

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1552 Pages

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6.8 x 12.9 x 19.6

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NAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD

A modern classic, this epic tale of families, romance and political intrigue never loses its power to delight and enchant readers.

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata - and her mother's - attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. At the same time, it is the story of India, newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great general election and the chance to map its own destiny.

About the Author

Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales.

Industry Reviews

No one, surely, could wish this novel shorter ... the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart - OBSERVER

A long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to life ... such writing reminds us that there are secrets beyond technique, beyond even style - GUARDIAN

Vikram Seth is already the best writer of his generation - THE TIMES

A quietly monumental novel . . . [Seth] has given that unlikeliest of hybrids, a modest tour de force - TLS

Conceived on a grand scale of the great 19th century novels - War and Peace, Middlemarch - A Suitable Boy grows to match them in breadth and depth . . . [A] massive and magnificent book - Sunday Times

A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel of 19th century storytelling in the language of today - EVENING STANDARD

An immensely enjoyable novel which describes with unhurried pace the panorama of India . . . Everything appears familiar to us, yet in fact it is newly minted by a master artist - Hindustan Times

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