A Suitable Boy () is a novel by Indian author and Stanford economist Vikram Seth. Over 1, pages in length, it is a family saga. Critics praised A Suitable Boy for its probing, panoramic look into India’s cultural norms, as well as its combination of satire and romance. Seth received an exceedingly rare million-dollar advance for the novel, a fact that caused a sensation in the Indian press. · A Suitable Boy tells the story of several Indian families. At the heart of the story lies Lata, whose mother wants to find her a suitable man to marry. This means, at least to her mother, a boy who has good prospects, isn't a muslim, and is the right shade/5(). · "Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth's “epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - /5(K).
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 s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined. Global streaming giant Netflix has come on board "A Suitable Boy," the BBC Studios and Lookout Point adaptation of Vikram Seth's bestselling novel. The series begins airing later this month. Answer (1 of 2): Vikram Seth is one of my absolutely favorite authors and whilst I love all his books, The Golden Gate has to be the best. It's perfect meter adds to the pleasure of reading and perfectly exhibits Seth's excellent technical command of language as well as poetic devices to create.
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's - and her mother’s - attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. Vikram Seth, on the adaptation of his novel to miniseries, in a press report to The Times of India. In May , Charlotte Moore, head of content for BBC Studios, announced for an adaptation of Vikram Seth 's novel A Suitable Boy, into a mini-television series. A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in With 1, pages (1, pages in paperback), the English–language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume. A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra's efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a "suitable boy".
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