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
about this author
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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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 by Vikram Seth avg rating 3.63 — 950 ratings — published 1999 22 editions |
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The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth avg rating 4.00 — 491 ratings — published 1986 10 editions |
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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 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 There by Vikram Seth avg rating 3.73 — 62 ratings — published 1992 9 editions |
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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 by Vikram Seth avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published 1992 6 editions |
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The Humble Administrator's Garden by Vikram Seth avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 1985 3 editions |
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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)
— 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)
— Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy: A Novel)
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