A SUITABLE BOY: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

by Vikram Seth

Category: Award-winners, Fiction
Price: Rs. 1499

A Suitable Boy took the world by storm when it was first published. Twenty years later Vikram Seth’s epic masterpiece retains its power to delight and amaze.

‘Set in post-independence India, the novel follows for eighteen months or so four linked families in Calcutta, the province of Purva Pradesh and its capital Brahmpur, and the cities—Delhi, Kanpur, Lucknow—trawled by the heroine’s mother in her search for a “suitable boy”… But the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart—with all its varieties of kindness and cruelty, its capacity for hurt… As with all the best books, one feels only dismay when the pages on the right of the tome start thinning out.’—The Observer

‘Not merely one of the longest novels in English; it may also prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of [the twentieth] century.’—The Times

‘So vast and so amiably peopled [A Suitable Boy] is a long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to life. [The novel] covers India like a sun, warming a whole country in its historical rays It is almost impossible to imagine an unswayed reader.’—Guardian

About the Author

Vikram Seth is the acclaimed author of three novels: The Golden Gate, An Equal Music, and A Suitable Boy, one of the most beloved and widely read books of recent times. He has also published several books of poetry, an opera libretto, a book of other libretti, and two highly regarded works of non-fiction, From Heaven Lake and Two Lives. He is at present at work on A Suitable Girl.

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