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lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010
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Sitting Pretty
The character Vikram Seth chooses in his novel A Suitable Boy to represent himself is not one of the central characters; it is Amit the poet who “was sitting pretty in his father’s house and doing nothing that counted as real work,” which happens to ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010
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Timeless, a modern classic
Do not waste your time looking for Brahmpur on a map of India. The city, simply, does not exist. Nevertheless, looking, hearing, smelling and - last but not least - reading the pages of this wonderful book you will be surprised to discover how real this non-city is.
Lata's search for the suitable bo ... (continue)Nicolamenicacci said on Feb 4, 2010 | Add your feedback
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A never-ending soap-opera. An all-embracing catalogue of post-partition Indianness, covering as wide and incongrous a range of topics as love, gardening, land reforms, poetry, Congress party corruption, funerary ceremonies, cast politics, religious pregiudices, food, ghazals, astrology and much, muc ... (continue)
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ilariainthelibrary said on Feb 18, 2010 | Add your feedback
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A novel of enormous scope covering the period after Independence in India. It opens a great vista, a panoramic view of life in India with, I suspect, no equal. The characters are truly memorable, unsurpassed in literature which really has no plot or mystery but just an unfolding of life as it is. A ... (continue)
GraJon said on Mar 4, 2009 | Add your feedback
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Epic journey into the lives of four families in an India post-independence from Britain and post-partition with Pakistan. At almost 1500 pages this book is not for the faint-hearted, but nevertheless, I didnt find boring, slow or too long.
At first glance it is the story of a the search for a ' ... (continue)Dylaniata said on Jan 26, 2009 | 1 feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback
- ISBN-10: 1552780171
- ISBN-13: 9781552780176
- Publisher: McArthur & Co / Mcarthur (Tp,H
- Pub date: Nov 19, 1998
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Indian Summa
Forests have been slain, not only in the manufacture A Suitable Boy, but in the production of its review coverage. An unusual amount of the publicity has been statistical, with journalists dwelling on the size of the book (1349 pages), its weight (an ... (read full critics)