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Viking - Penguin India, 1994. Hardback. Good.
Mappings (1994) by Vikram Seth — Condition: Good (Crappy Old Books, Indian Publication)
Before A Suitable Boy made him famous for writing a novel the size of a small apartment, Vikram Seth was quietly scribbling poetry that zigzags across continents, cultures, and moods. Mappings is his debut collection, and it’s exactly that: a poetic atlas where the coordinates are sometimes Chinese landscapes, sometimes Elizabethan echoes, sometimes plain old heartbreak and delight. Seth slips from classical forms into cheeky limericks, from translations of Chinese verse to personal love poems, with the same ease you or I slip into procrastination.
This is the 1994 Viking–Penguin India edition (ISBN: 9780670857999), an English-language publication straight out of New Delhi—so yes, you get that little extra frisson of authenticity knowing it’s not just a Seth book, it’s a Seth book born in Seth’s own publishing…
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