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A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

ISBN: 9780060786526
Release Date: 01 Oct 2005
Average rating: (read by 50 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. 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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	LucyRing Full Review
	Rated it 5 months ago

I love this book so much. I've read it twice (which is unusual for me) and it is just as good the second time around.
Although the length of the book looks off putting, once you are past the first few chapters, you develop a real love for the...

	lottypoo Full Review
	Rated it 8 months ago

I bought this book a few years back and must admit I attempted it a few times before I was really ready to read it. It is perhaps not a book for those who are put off by small print and thousands of pages but trust me when I say it is worth...

	curly
	Rated it 10 months ago

My all time favourite, all encompassing, saga ever. Seth captures everything with clear, engaging wit and compassionate commentary on human foibles. My only regret is that I can never read it again for the first time.

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