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Vikram Seth

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A SUITABLE BOY by Vikram Seth is the story of four families in India in the early 1950s after British occupation has ended and the India/Pakistan Partition has taken place. Though not an epic novel in the usual sense of the word, A SUITABLE BOY is certainly epic in scale, over 1,400 pages in length. To understand the novel, the reader must also understand to a certain extent the Indian culture...

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Vikram Seth Biographies (3)

Vikram Seth

2,541 words, approx. 9 pages

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... Read more

Vikram Seth

7,922 words, approx. 27 pages

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... Read more

Vikram Seth

4,051 words, approx. 14 pages

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... Read more