Barnes & NobleA Suitable Boy: A Novel by Vikram Seth

Now a television series on Acorn TV, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction.Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence. Vikram Seth novel is, at its core, a love story ; the tale of Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra 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, this compelling story 160;takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves.