A Suitable Boy (20th Anniversary ed)

✍ Scribed by Seth, Vikram

• Publisher: Phoenix Pick
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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.