A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
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.
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