A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics)
Product Description
A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics)
- Author: Seth, Vikram.
- Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Pages: 1488
- Publication Date: 2005-10-04
- Edition: Reissue
- Binding: Paperback
- MSRP: 22.99
- ISBN13: 9780060786526
- ISBN: 0060786523
- Language: en
- Store Location: General Fiction
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<p>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, <em>A Suitable Boy</em> 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, <em>A Suitable Boy</em> 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.</p>
