A Suitable Boy: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Seth, Vikram

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060170123 ISBN 13 : 9780060170127

Editeur : Harpercollins, 1993

Synopsis

Book by Seth Vikram

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A special twenty-year anniversary edition of A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth's great classic of Indian literature.Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the last century, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial rule, it tells of Lata, and of her mother's exacting attempts to find her the perfect husband. It also recounts India's troubles shaping its own destiny as the country marches towards its first great General Election. Vikram Seth's historical novel A Suitable Boy is a story that readers the world over can neither put down nor ever forget.'Fiction on a grand scale. By the time you reach the last page you will have absorbed a splendid story, full of the tangle and perfume of India' Sunday Telegraph'No one, surely, could wish this novel shorter. The greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart' Observer'This novel, so vast and so amiably peopled, is a long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to life' Guardian'A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel of nineteenth-century style storytelling' Evening Standard'Seth is the best writer of his generation' The TimesEqually gifted as a poet, essayist, memoirist, travel writer and novelist, Vikram Seth is perhaps best known for A Suitable Boy, one of the best loved and most widely read novels of recent times. His other books include An Equal Music, The Golden Gate, Two Lives and The Rivered Earth, a book of libretti to accompany music by the composer Alec Roth.

Revue de presse

The best writer of his generation (The Times)

This novel, so vast and so amiably peopled, is a long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to life . . . His novel deserves thousands of long marriages and suitable readers (Guardian)

No one, surely, could wish this novel shorter . . . the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart (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)

A quietly monumental novel . . . [Seth] has given that unlikeliest of hybrids, a modest tour de force (TLS)

An immensely enjoyable novel which describes with unhurried pace the panorama of India . . . Everything appears familiar to us, yet in fact it is newly minted by a master artist (Hindustan Times)

Conceived on a grand scale of the great 19th century novels - War and Peace, Middlemarch - A Suitable Boy grows to match them in breadth and depth . . . [A] massive and magnificent book (Sunday Times)

A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel of 19th century storytelling in the language of today . . . It is hard to believe that Seth is only one man. He writes with the omniscience and authority of a large, orderly committee of experts on Indian politics, law, medicine, crowd psychology, urban and rural social customs, dress, cuisine, horticulture, funerary rites, cricket and even the technicalities of shoe manufacture (Evening Standard)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harpercollins
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060170123
• ISBN 13: 9780060170127
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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