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A Suitable Boy (Suitables #1)

Vikram Seth

Paperback | Pages: 1474 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 40243 Users | 2098 Reviews

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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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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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Title	:	A Suitable Boy (Suitables #1)
Author	:	Vikram Seth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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I'm feeling this great sense of accomplishment right now after finishing this gargantuan book this morning. The crazy thing is that I almost wish it wasn't done. I want to know so many things about the characters - (view spoiler)[ did Varun get it together now that he finally made it through his civil service exams, did anything come of him and Kalpana? Is Malati wedging in between that relationship? So many unanswered questions! (sigh) (hide spoiler)] However, I thoroughly enjoyed this book,

A Suitable Boy describes a year in the life of the fledgling Indian democracy, indirectly told through the experiences of four connected families and a litany of supporting characters, who, due to the diversity of their occupations and social positions, are able to explore various facets political, legal, social, cultural, religious, artistic of the India of this period, and the clash of its opposing cultural forces: traditional versus modern values, religion versus secularism, Hinduism versus



I finished Vikram Seths tome A Suitable Boy this Sunday morning while enjoying my coffee and a white chocolate, coconut Christmas cookie that my daughter had baked just last night. All right, all right, I confess it was actually two white chocolate, coconut Christmas cookies. But who can blame me really. They were so good. Not too sweet, she had gone ahead and reduced the suggested amount of sugar, resulting in a perfect blend of sweet with just a hint of salt and a nice moist and chewy texture.

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

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

After about page 200 I realised this was like eating Turkish Delight morning noon and night and my spiritual teeth were beginning to dissolve under a tide of sickliness which didn't ever let up. All these characters are so unbearably cute, even the less-nice ones. If post-independent India was crossed with Bambi, it would be Vikram Seth's endless gurgling prose. So I stopped reading and drove several three inch nails into my head, and I've been all right since then.