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Suitable Boy

Suitable Boy

Suitable Boy
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Suitable Boy Trade paperback - 1994

by Vikram Seth

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  • Title Suitable Boy
  • Author Vikram Seth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - General
  • Pages 1474
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Publication date April 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 117287
  • ISBN 9780060925000 / 0060925000
  • Weight 2.13 lbs (0.97 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.35 x 1.85 in (20.35 x 13.59 x 4.70 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Love stories
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Historical Fiction

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This seller has earned a 3.96 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
3.96 / 5 (25 total reviews)

The book drew criticism for its unwieldy length and lack of cohesion, with a reader citing numerous unresolved threads and a narrative that never clarifies its purpose, leaving them irritated after 1,400-plus pages.

Readers say this book is:
overlongmeanderingunfocusedaimlessbloatedfrustratingunsatisfyingloose endsunfinishedirritating

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From the publisher

With more than 60,000 hardcover copies sold, this ecstatically acclaimed bestseller is an epic novel destined to become a literary classic. Seth offers a rich and spellbinding story of four extended families in postcolonial India in the 1950s. Lavishly detailed . . . Lovingly recounted. . . .--New York T imes Book Review.

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'You too will marry a boy I choose,' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter.

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