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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 and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, "A Suitable Boy" 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.

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• Full title: A Suitable Boy
• Author: Vikram Seth
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1474
• EAN: 9780060786526
• ISBN: 0060786523
• ID: 10963427
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Weight: 1223 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 64 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2005

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