A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

A Suitable Boy is a bestselling 1993 novel by Vikram Seth. It is set in 1950s India, in the period following Independence and Partition. Synopsis: 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. This is a paperback book in good used condition. The cover and pages are bent, but there is no writing or marking of the pages.