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, multi
ethnic 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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