false 72274933 731321 50365 0060786523 9780060786526 359 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 2259 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.

]]> 28345 3.93 4914 696 1993 I couldn't force myself to go on. 0 2009-10-22T15:14:50-07:00 1483416 386 2009-10-22T15:14:50-07:00 0 2009-10-14T16:34:53-07:00 1447449 211 2009-10-14T16:34:53-07:00 So far this book hasn't blown my skirt up; however, I have read it takes a bit to get into to so onward! 0 2009-09-30T15:37:35-07:00 1384144 79 2009-09-30T15:37:35-07:00 Starting this book as a buddy read tomorrow. Can't wait to get started! 0 2009-09-23T15:42:29-07:00 1351767 1 2009-09-23T15:42:29-07:00 1 0 false Wed Sep 23 15:42:05 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 15:14:19 -0700 2009