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A suitable boy : a novel / Vikram Seth.

by Seth, Vikram, 1952-

Little Brown (Canada), c1993.

Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Families -- India -- Fiction.

India -- History -- 1947- -- Fiction.

India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

9781857990881 (2004 Orion Books pbk.)

9780060786526 (2005 Harper Perennial Classics trade pbk.)

1552780171 (Phoenix trade pbk.)

0060170123 (HarperCollins ed.)

1349 p. : geneal. tables ; 24 cm.

Geneal. tables on lining papers.

"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, 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."--Publisher.

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 1994.

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