TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seth,Vikram
TI  - A suitable boy: a novel 
SN  - 9780060786526
AV  - PR 9499.3 .S38 S83 2005
PY  - 2005///, c1993
CY  - New York, London
PB  - HarperPerennial
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 1947-
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Love stories
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Previous edition: 1994; Originally published: HarperCollins, c1993
N2  - 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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