Description
Now a television series on Acorn TV, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair
“Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction.” –Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence.
Vikram Seth’s novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata’s–and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s–attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, this compelling story takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves.
About the Author
Romancier et poète, Vikram Seth est l’un des plus grands écrivains indiens contemporains, avec Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul et Rohinton Mistry. Le grand roman à travers lequel il s’est fait connaître en France, Un garçon convenable (1995), a connu un succès considérable et a été traduit en plus de trente langues. Né en Inde, mais formé autant à Oxford, en Californie, en Chine que dans son pays d’origine, Vikram Seth partage son temps entre New Delhi et Londres.