Indian · b. 1952
Vikram Seth is an Indian author celebrated for his versatility, best known for A Suitable Boy, one of the longest and most beloved novels in the English language.
Vikram Seth is a remarkably versatile writer of poetry, fiction, travel writing, and memoir, equally at home in verse and prose.
His epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993), set in post-independence India and following a mother’s search for a husband for her daughter, is one of the longest novels in English and a beloved panorama of Indian society. His earlier The Golden Gate was a novel written entirely in sonnets, and An Equal Music explored the world of classical musicians.
Seth is admired for his technical brilliance, warmth, and storytelling reach, and for a body of work of unusual range and ambition.
by Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth's vast novel of postcolonial India. As a mother searches for a 'suitable boy' for her daughter Lata in the newly independent India of the early 1950s, Seth weaves the lives of four extended families into an immense, intimate panorama of a nation finding itself.
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