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Vikram Seth's novel in verse, The Golden Gate (1986), won wide acclaim. Its verse is sometimes playful and sometimes exquisite, and its narrative is involving, often funny, and sometimes profoundly to...
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The tradition of the great writers of preindependence India, such as Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan, and Mulk Raj Anand, has given way to Indian writers of the global village led by two important and fundame...
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Vikram Seth is an Anglo-Indian writer perhaps best known for his monumental, nearly 1,500-page novel on domestic and political life in mid-twentieth-century India, A Suitable Boy (1993). But it was as...
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In the following review, Siegel compares From Heaven Lake to Lawrence Durrell's essays on Greece, arguing that both writers excel in describing the culture, history, and physical qualities of t...
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In the following review, Perry lauds Beastly Tales from Here and There.
On reading the delightful animal fables gathered in Beastly Tales from Here and There, it is tempting to exclaim, "Aha, n...
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An American educator and critic, King has written extensively on Indian poetry. In the following review, he discusses The Humble Administrator's Garden in relation to postmodernism.
There was a...
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In the following review of From Heaven Lake, Grimes praises Seth's attention to human behavior and cultural difference.
It is early August, and Vikram Seth, one of three passengers wedged into ...
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Vikram Seth
Critical Review by Eve Siegel
