A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth First published 1993

About this book

The tale of Lata's and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through maternal appraisal. Set in post-independence India and involving the lives of four families, it is also an explanation of a whole continent faced with its first great General Election.

Subjects

  • 18.07 english literature outside europe and the usa
  • 1947-
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, romance, general
  • history
  • india, fiction
  • india in fiction
  • indian literature
  • romans