A Suitable Boy - (Perennial Classics) by Vikram Seth (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Now a television series on Acorn TV, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair</strong></p><p><strong>"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, <em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong></p><p> A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, <em>A Suitable Boy</em> 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.</p><p>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<em>A Suitable Boy</em> provides that rarest of books, a literary tour de force as pleasant as it is unpretentious . . . a book as suitable for the scholar's nightstand as it is for any restful and enriching summer vacation."--<strong><em>USA Today</em></strong><br><br>"[Seth is] passionately concerned to offer his Western readers as thick--and as multilayered--a slice of Indian life in the 1950s as this huge novel can hold . . . Lavishly detailed . . . lovingly recounted."--<strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br><br>"A huge, fulsome novel . . . [with] surprising depths . . . What makes the book special is the wit and whimsy that inform its pages."--<strong><em>Chicago Tribune</em></strong><br><br>"A magnificent display of artistic control. . . . <em>A Suitable Boy</em> is a page-turner...that pays the reader back and richly."--<strong><em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong><br><br>"A vivid tapestry of Indian life in the early 1950s . . . [Seth's] characters are captivating . . . They linger in the mind like old friends."--<strong><em>People</em></strong><br><br>"Awe . . . is what Seth's labor inspires in the reader. In the end it is as if one had listened to a raag played by a musician with skill, dexterity, and charm."--<strong>Anita Desai, <em>New York Review of Books</em></strong><br><br>"Enormously varied, unfailingly interesting, funny, sad, exasperating and appealing, this novel becomes a real passage to India."--<strong><em>Atlantic Monthly</em></strong><br><br>"Spellbinding . . . Patterned after the massively populated nineteenth-century social novels of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, <em>A Suitable Boy</em> is as vast and teeming as its subject, India."--<strong><em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong><br><br>"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."--<strong>Jonathan Yardley, <em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong><br><br>"The novel casts a fine spell. . . . As you turn page after quiet page . . . what you're doing gradually passes beyond reading. It becomes an involuntary act, like breathing."--<strong><em>Newsweek</em></strong><br>
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