Two Lives: A Memoir
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.
Country | USA |
Brand | Harper Perennial |
Manufacturer | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
Binding | Paperback |
ItemPartNumber | 9780060786526 |
ReleaseDate | 2005-10-04 |
UnitCount | 1 |
EANs | 9780060786526 |