A Suitable Boy

Author: Vikram SethPublisher: PenguinYear: 1999Language: EnglishPages: 1349ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140230335 DescriptionAn immensely enjoyable novel which describes with unhurried pace the panorama of India. . . Illuminates segments of Indian life quite brilliantly minted by a master artist.Set in post-independence India, the novel follows for eighteen months or so four linked families in Calcutta, the province of Purva Pradesh and its capital Brahmpur, and the cities - Delhi, Kanpur, Lucknow - traveled by the heroine's mother in her search for a suitable boy, But the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart - with all its varieties of kindness and cruelty, its capacity to hurt .. As with all the best books, one feels only dismay when the pages on the right of the tome start thinning out.COMMENTS:So vast and so amiably peopled, A Suitable boy is a long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to