A Suitable Boy

✍ Hanneke Bot 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 Springer 🌐 Dutch ⚖ 56 KB

✍ Seth, Vikram 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Orion Publishing Group, Limited 🌐 English ⚖ 250 KB

From Publishers Weekly Seth previously made a splash with his 1986 novel in verse, The Golden Gate . Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, however, may gasp for mercy. Set in the post-colonial

A Suitable Boy

✍ Seth, Vikram 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 Harper Perennial Modern Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 1008 KB

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

✍ Seth, Vikram 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Orion Publishing Group, Limited 🌐 English ⚖ 342 KB

From Publishers Weekly Seth previously made a splash with his 1986 novel in verse, The Golden Gate . Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, however, may gasp for mercy. Set in the post-colonial

A Suitable Boy

✍ Vikram Seth 📂 Fiction 🏛 Orion 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB 👁 3 views

Vikram Seth’s novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata – and her mother’s attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vas

A Suitable Boy

✍ Seth, Vikram 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Orion Publishing Group, Limited 🌐 English ⚖ 343 KB

From Publishers Weekly Seth previously made a splash with his 1986 novel in verse, The Golden Gate . Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, however, may gasp for mercy. Set in the post-colonial