Buy this book on-line SETH,VIKRAM:** : A SUITABLE BOY.**LONDON.PHOENIX HOUSE,1993. ISBN 1897580207.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.
Slight ageing fore-edges.Contents,bright,
tight and clean.
"You too will marry a boy I choose," announces Mrs. Rupa Mehra to her younger daughter,Lata,at the start of Seth's colossal novel.Lata,however,is unconvinced,and at the heart of the story is the decision she has to make.Will she comply with her mother's wishes and marry Haresh Khanna,the most "suitable" of the three men who are courting her,a shoe factory manager with great enthusiasm for his work who was introduced by a family friend? Will she marry the poet Amit,her brother's brother-in-law,who proposes after they become friends during Lata's university holidays? Or will she defy her mother and marry the most unsuitable boy of them all,Kabir,a Muslim fellow university student,with whom she has fallen in love? The story of the search for a husband follows the fortunes of four
families during one year,1951,four years after Indian independence.It is set against the background of the passage of land reform legislation,religious festivals such as the Pul Mela,and the considerable Hindu-Muslim tensions that lurk beneath the surface and occasionally erupt into violence.Be warned,shorter than
'War and Peace' by only some fifty pages! [AB.]
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