A Suitable Boy

By Vikram Seth format: trade paperback publication: August 1998 ISBN: 9781552780176

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Winner of the 1994 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.

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, 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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