Suitable Boy A Novel

Name: Suitable Boy A Novel
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ISBN: 9780060786526

ISBN-10: 0060786523

ISBN-13: 9780060786526

Edition: N/A

Authors: Vikram Seth

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1488
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 2.38" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English