A Suitable Boy: Commonwealth Prize-Winning Epic of Family, Love, and Tradition in 1950s India - Couverture souple

Seth, Vikram

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060786523 ISBN 13 : 9780060786526

Editeur : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

Synopsis

“Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence.

Vikram Seth’s novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata’s—and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s—attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, this compelling story takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vikram Seth has written acclaimed books in several genres: verse novel, The Golden Gate; travel book, From Heaven Lake; animal fables, Beastly Tales; epic fiction, A Suitable Boy. His most recent novel, An Equal Music, was published in 1999. He lives in England and India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060786523
• ISBN 13: 9780060786526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1488
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