Vikram Seth






Vikram Seth

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born
June 20, 1952

gender
male

place of birth
Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India

genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry


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Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. An unusually forthcoming writer whose published material is replete with un- or thinly-disguised details as to the personal lives of himself and his intimates related in a highly engaging narrative voice, Seth has said that he is somewhat perplexed that his readers often in consequence presume to an unwelcome degree of personal familiarity with him.





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avg rating: 3.93 | 4,737 ratings | 672 reviews | 21 distinct works | 19 fans
A Suitable Boy: A Novel A Suitable Boy: A Novel
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 4.13 — 2,168 ratings — published 1993
35 editions
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An Equal Music: A Novel An Equal Music: A Novel
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 3.63 — 950 ratings — published 1999
22 editions
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The Golden Gate The Golden Gate
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 4.00 — 491 ratings — published 1986
10 editions
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Two Lives: A Memoir Two Lives: A Memoir
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 3.48 — 335 ratings — published 2005
17 editions
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Thro... From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 4.06 — 140 ratings — published 1983
13 editions
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Beastly Tales from Here and Th... Beastly Tales from Here and There
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 3.73 — 62 ratings — published 1992
9 editions
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All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poe... All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 3.94 — 36 ratings — published 1990
4 editions
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Three Chinese Poets Three Chinese Poets
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published 1992
6 editions
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The Humble Administrator's Gar... The Humble Administrator's Garden
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 1985
3 editions
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Mappings Mappings
by Vikram Seth
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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"But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch."
Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy: A Novel)
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"God save us from people who mean well."
Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy: A Novel)
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"'When I was younger,' he said. 'I - who now consider myself truly sober - would spend my time beating people up. My grandfather used to do so in our village, and he was a well-respected man, so I thought that beating people up was what made people look up to him. There were about five or six of us, and we would egg each other on. We'd just go up to some school-fellow, who might be wandering innocently along, and slap him hard across the face. What I would never have dared to do alone, I did without any hesitation in company. But, well, I don't any more. I've learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things - maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.""
Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy: A Novel)
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