Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 1994.
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, a tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great General Election and the chance to map its own destiny.
Vikram Seth
Two Lives
$26.95 – Paperback book / Abacus
Two Lives tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, He... Buy or find out more →
A Suitable Boy
$29.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 1994.
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, a tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set ... Buy or find out more →
An Equal Music
$22.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music ... An Equal Music is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lo... Buy or find out more →
