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A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume. A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra ...
May 1, 1993 · A Suitable Boy is a behemoth book of approximately 1,500 pages by Vikram Seth which is allegedly about a young woman named Lata who is trying to find a suitable boy to marry. The book centers on four different families as well as various political and social movements in India in the 1950’s.
Oct 4, 2005 · 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.
Jul 8, 2022 · A Suitable Boy. by. Vikram Seth. Publication date. 1988. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive.
Jan 1, 1993 · A Suitable Boy: A Novel Hardcover – January 1, 1993. by Vikram Seth (Author) 4.3 4,253 ratings. See all formats and editions. While a widowed mother agonizes over her daughter's future, the newly independent India of the early 1950s struggles through a time of great crisis when its varied cultures clash. 100,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.
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. Report an issue with this product. Print length.
- Vikram Seth
ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD. A modern classic, this epic tale of families, romance and political intrigue, set in India, never loses its power to delight and enchant readers.
- Vikram Seth
