Vikram Seth
Paperback | Pages: 1474 pages Rating: 4.11 | 40243 Users | 2098 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Suitable Boy |
| ISBN: | 0060786523 (ISBN13: 9780060786526) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Suitables #1 |
| Characters: | Lata Mehra, Rupa Mehra, Savita Mehra, Arun Mehra, Varun Mehra, Pran Kapoor, Maan Kapoor, Amit Chatterji, Meenakshi Mehra (née Chatterji) |
| Setting: | Delhi(India) Kanpur Calcutta(India) …more Brahmapur India …less |
| Literary Awards: | WH Smith Literary Award (1994), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (1994) |
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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.Specify Containing Books A Suitable Boy (Suitables #1)
| Title | : | A Suitable Boy (Suitables #1) |
| Author | : | Vikram Seth |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1474 pages |
| Published | : | October 4th 2005 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published May 1st 1993) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
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Ratings: 4.11 From 40243 Users | 2098 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books A Suitable Boy (Suitables #1)
I'm feeling this great sense of accomplishment right now after finishing this gargantuan book this morning. The crazy thing is that I almost wish it wasn't done. I want to know so many things about the characters - (view spoiler)[ did Varun get it together now that he finally made it through his civil service exams, did anything come of him and Kalpana? Is Malati wedging in between that relationship? So many unanswered questions! (sigh) (hide spoiler)] However, I thoroughly enjoyed this book,Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy is one of the best books I've ever read in my entire life. It's a long book. But it is very engaging; I managed to read it in one stretch, with a break to sleep, while I awaited the movers to take me and my belongings across the country. To my chagrin I had completed it before my flight, and when it finished I didn't want the book to be over, I wanted to go back and re-read it from the beginning. It is one of the best books about life in India I've ever read, it is
This is a magnificent saga, which left me breathless and awaiting the next word, set in India at the beginning of the fifties."Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get
For Thanksgiving 2010 I spent the day finishing up Infinite Jest. For a while there I thought maybe I'd always try to finish up some sort of behemoth on Thanksgiving day, since the day to me means staying in my jammies and watching The Godfather on TV while I read. The food involved can easily be made while reading or the Boyfriend steps up and makes the yummies. But then last year I went with a a shorter book choice which I was able to read all on Thanksgiving. Boy, was that a mistake.But then
I miss this book already. i'm having trouble deciding what to read with my morning coffee. (i might be back to write a real review)
This is like a buffet of Indian food. Everything seems to be here, in this monster of a book, all 1349 pages and 3 kilos of it: law, politics, business, history, tradition, superstitions, deities, romance, suspense, tragedy, humor, festivals, marriages, infidelities, friendship, betrayal, family, deaths, births, suicide,court trials, land reform, poetry, the Chatterji's couplets, amusing characters, etc. Even my mother is here (I mean, a character who, in some ways, resembles my mother). There's
This is a novel of India set in the early 1950s just after the partition. In it, Vikram Seth provides a window into the culture and history of India at an early critical juncture in its history: the political and cultural climate five years after the country gained its independence from Great Britain in 1947. At the center of the novel is a romance about a young girl, Lata, whose mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, is searching for a "suitable boy" for her to marry. The novel's opening section succeeded in
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