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A Suitable Girl
A Suitable Girl is an upcoming novel by Vikram Seth, which is a sequel to his 1994 book A Suitable Boy. Seth has stated that the book will be set in the present, rather than in 1952 where A Suitable Boy finished, and will therefore be what Seth calls a "jump sequel."
800 pages, Hardcover
Published June 14, 2018
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Vikram Seth
59 books1,713 followersVikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.
During the course of his doctorate studies at Stanford, he did his field work in China and translated Hindi and Chinese poetry into English. He returned to Delhi via Xinjiang and Tibet which led to a travel narrative From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986) was his first novel describing the experiences of a group of friends who live in California. A Suitable Boy (1993), an epic of Indian life set in the 1950s, got him the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
His poetry includes The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985) and All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990). His Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) is children's book consisting of ten stories in verse about animals.
In 2005, he published Two Lives, a family memoir written at the suggestion of his mother, which focuses on the lives of his great-uncle (Shanti Behari Seth) and German-Jewish great aunt (Henny Caro) who met in Berlin in the early 1930s while Shanti was a student there and with whom Seth stayed extensively on going to England at age 17 for school. As with From Heaven Lake, Two Lives contains much autobiography.
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.
During the course of his doctorate studies at Stanford, he did his field work in China and translated Hindi and Chinese poetry into English. He returned to Delhi via Xinjiang and Tibet which led to a travel narrative From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986) was his first novel describing the experiences of a group of friends who live in California. A Suitable Boy (1993), an epic of Indian life set in the 1950s, got him the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
His poetry includes The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985) and All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990). His Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) is children's book consisting of ten stories in verse about animals.
In 2005, he published Two Lives, a family memoir written at the suggestion of his mother, which focuses on the lives of his great-uncle (Shanti Behari Seth) and German-Jewish great aunt (Henny Caro) who met in Berlin in the early 1930s while Shanti was a student there and with whom Seth stayed extensively on going to England at age 17 for school. As with From Heaven Lake, Two Lives contains much autobiography.
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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May 2, 2025May 2025: Just passed mid-tenure review, will see what I can do about going up early, but it’s pretty uncool for Vikram Seth to put all this pressure on one philosopher.
October 2019: Hi, everyone! It occurred to me that Vikram Seth might be waiting for me to get a tenure-track job before he publishes A Suitable Girl. I'm not on the market this year, so it will be a bit of a wait. Sorry!
June 2018: Well, I finished my thing, so the book should be here any minute.
Nov 2016: What if Vikram Seth is waiting for me to finish my dissertation before he finishes this book? Sorry for holding things up, everyone.
October 2019: Hi, everyone! It occurred to me that Vikram Seth might be waiting for me to get a tenure-track job before he publishes A Suitable Girl. I'm not on the market this year, so it will be a bit of a wait. Sorry!
June 2018: Well, I finished my thing, so the book should be here any minute.
Nov 2016: What if Vikram Seth is waiting for me to finish my dissertation before he finishes this book? Sorry for holding things up, everyone.
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December 29, 2020For big books' sake, why is this cover chosen????!!!!!!! I mean why??????? Wae?????? Wèishéme?????! Naze????????? Kyunnnnnnnnn???????? Kindly change it, I mean. Before I get mean.
(I am just being keyboard mean now.)
(I am just being keyboard mean now.)
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March 15, 2017CANT WAIT FOR THIS!!!
A Suitable Girl by Vikram Seth is the sequel to the bestselling novel A Suitable Boy. This book is Vikram Seth’s most awaited novel which got delayed due to Vikram’s personal issues.
FINALLY, This 800-page novel now has a release date of 14 Jun 2018.
A Suitable Girl by Vikram Seth is the sequel to the bestselling novel A Suitable Boy. This book is Vikram Seth’s most awaited novel which got delayed due to Vikram’s personal issues.
FINALLY, This 800-page novel now has a release date of 14 Jun 2018.
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December 11, 2021All those folks cursing George RR Martin have nothing on us Suitable Boy fans.
Hurry up, Vikram Seth. Please! Please?
Hurry up, Vikram Seth. Please! Please?
October 19, 2021
FINALLY AN UPDATE FROM THE AUTHOR HIMSELF:
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/le...
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/le...
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March 12, 2017I've always strongly believed in the possibility of Soul Mates but A Suitable Girl invokes the die-hard, hardcore skeptic in me; I mug up my Skeptical Manisfesto all over again! But this sequel is from our Avant Gardist Vikram Seth so it's -- I dunno -- He has a magic wand and notoriously and dubiously credited for coining and minting the word miracle itself by none other than our diurnal, night owls: Literary activists of our vibrant Social Media! I gave 'em my own handle: Lurkers. Always in the wrong corner of a dimly-lit chit-chat room! Self-delusional--of course--Looking for A Suitable Girl eh? Here? Yep, why not? Tick Tock! Tick Tock! Tick Tock!
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July 29, 2020I just learned of this and it seems people have been waiting for publication for about 6 years. It had a "confirmed" publication date in 2018 and still not here. I can only assume he is still writing and refining. After all, if you are going to write a sequel to one of the most superb books ever written, it had better be good. I CAN'T WAIT, I CAN'T WAIT, I CAN'T WAIT. Please Mr Seth, don't keep us hanging too much longer
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March 10, 20183* A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1)
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