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A Suitable Boy: A Novel

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4 out of 5
Based on 38,589 Ratings and 2,280 Reviews

Book Description


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 an... More
Book Information
PublisherHarperCollins Children's Books
BindingPaperback (38 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages1474
ISBN-100060786523
ISBN-13978-0060786526
Publication Date10/04/2005
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About Vikram Seth (Author) : Vikram Seth is a published author and a narrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Vikram Seth include A Suitable Boy (Dramatised), Arion and the Dolphin.
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1/15/2008 becca thorne said: This is so long it seemed at first like Seth was trying to prove how great he was by how big a novel he could write, but actually its a great book and a wonderful story.
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