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A Suitable Boy (Suitables #1)

Vikram Seth

Paperback | Pages: 1474 pages

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Title	:	A Suitable Boy (Suitables #1)
Author	:	Vikram Seth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1474 pages
Published	:	October 4th 2005 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published May 1st 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asian Literature. Indian Literature

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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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Original Title:	A Suitable Boy
ISBN:	0060786523 (ISBN13: 9780060786526)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Suitables #1
Characters:	Lata Mehra, Rupa Mehra, Savita Mehra, Arun Mehra, Varun Mehra, Pran Kapoor, Maan Kapoor, Amit Chatterji, Meenakshi Mehra (née Chatterji)
Setting:	Delhi(India) Kanpur Calcutta(India) …more Brahmapur India …less
Literary Awards:	WH Smith Literary Award (1994), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (1994)

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This is a magnificent saga, which left me breathless and awaiting the next word, set in India at the beginning of the fifties."Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get

?!?!? I have to think and take this one in before I even consider the possibility of rating a 1500 pg book.

I cant believe that Ive finished reading this almost 1500 pages of it. Ive been daunted by this 3 of book for years but finally I can now look the paper doorstep in the eye/spine and smile. But my life now seems so flat, so quiet, so dull (and cold!) after being in India for so long. Time there certainly didnt drag!The British have been gone 3 or 4 years at the outset of the book. The continent has been partitioned and the resulting fledgeling independent states of India and Pakistan are

The book blurb says it all. I will only add my comments.While reading this monumental novel of 1535 pages, I was wondering how much of the original offering was edited out to end up with this number of pages as the final result! I also wondered, while ploughing through it, how much of the existing book can be cut out and still leave the essential core. Probably half of it. Compared to Barbara Kingsolver and Yung Chang, Vikram Seth needed twice as much pages to tell similar stories as these two

A fact : I never ever understood how postpartum depression works or why women suffer from it. Yet another fact: Having finished A Suitable Boy arouses similar feelings in a reader as postpartum depression in a new Mum. Why? Well, by the you finish reading one of the longest English novels ever written and the longest English Novel written by an Indian and that Indian is Vikram Seth, you're kind of used to the story, the characters, the way their life goes on. So, when you turn the last

*Spoiler alert*I finally finished reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. For some reason, I used to avoid picking it up and kept putting it off. I suppose it was mainly the size (its one thick book - approximately 1500 pages!) but I also think it had to do with this misconception I had that it would be a tough read, that Seths writing would be pompous and saturated with flowery descriptions of rivers winding through the green and yellow village of GraamNagar. Imagine my surprise when I find that

I miss this book already. i'm having trouble deciding what to read with my morning coffee. (i might be back to write a real review)