false 66027810 325479 50365 0060786523 9780060786526 360 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368733m/50365.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368733s/50365.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50365.A_Suitable_Boy_A_Novel 4.12 2264 Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.

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