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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50365.A_Suitable_Boy_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368733m/50365.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50365.A_Suitable_Boy_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">A Suitable Boy: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/28345.Vikram_Seth">Vikram Seth</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19291913?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>If you are about to read A Suitable Boy prepare to become acquainted with the politics and Hindu-Muslim conflicts of India half a century ago and intimately acquanted with middle and upper class Indian families of the period. Meet the Mehras', the Kapoors' and the charming Chatterjis' You will follow their careers, their tribulations and their love affairs. It is one of Vikram Seth's achievements in this remarkable novel that all of his characters burst with life and what a bunch they are - we have among them the sensitive, studious, feckless, irritating, dutiful and sexual pecadillos. We have also have high drama and lots of love affairs, although, with the exception of one cheerfully unrepentant adulteress, exceptionally chaste ones. I have read of Vikram Seth being compared to Jane Austen but Lata Mehra whose mother is determined to find her a suitable boy to marry is no Elizabeth Bennett and there's not a Fitwilliam Darcy among the contenders for her hand. <br/>A Suitable Boy is a long journey; do not expect to finish it quickly and you might just find, as so often in life, that the politics gets in the way, but all in if you are about to take the plunge you will I am sure have a gala time. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1048773?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>