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Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy
London Phoenix April 1995 1-85799-088-9 / 9781857990881 Paperback Good
Seth previously made a splash with his 1986 novel in verse, The Golden Gate . Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, ho wever, may gasp for mercy. Set in the post-colonial India of the 1950s, thi s sprawling saga involves four families--the Mehras, the Kapoors, the Chatt erjis and the Khans--whose domestic crises illuminate the historical and so cial events of the era. Like an old-fashioned soap opera (or a Bombay talki e), the multi-charactered plot pits mothers against daughters, fathers agai nst sons, Hindus against Muslims and small farmers against greedy landowner s facing government-ordered dispossession. The story revolves around indepe ndent-minded Lata Mehra: Will she defy the stern order of her widowed upper -caste Hindu mother by marrying the Muslim youth she loves? The search for Lata's husband expands into a richly detailed and exotically vivid narrativ e that crisscrosses the fabric of India. Seth's panoramic scenes take the r eader into law courts, religious processions, bloody riots, academia--even the shoe trade. Portraits of actual figures are incisive; the cameo of Indi an Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, for example, captures his high-minded, well-meaning indecision. Seth's point of view is both wry and affectionate, and his voluble, palpably atmospheric narrative teems with chaotic, irrepr essible life.
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