A Suitable Boy
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Now a television series on Acorn TV, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair ?Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction.? ?Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence.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, this compelling story takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves.

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  • : Vikram Seth
  • : Perennial
  • : 9780060786526
  • : Engels
  • : Paperback
  • : 1488
  • : oktober 2005
  • : 1041
  • : 202 x 139 x 64 mm.
  • : Perennial Classics
  • : Fictie: algemeen en literair; Gezinsleven fictie; Met betrekking tot mensen: ethnische groepen, inheemse volkeren, culturen, stammen en andere groepen van mensen; Verhalend thema: liefde en relaties