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100			_aSeth,Vikram
245		2	_aA Suitable Boy _c/ Vikram Seth
250			_aFirst
260			_aLondon _b: HarperCollins _c,1993
300			_a1349p.
520			_aVikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find—through love or through exacting maternal appraisal—a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aFiction
650			_a Historical Fiction
942			_cRBK
999			_c69144 _d69144