A Suitable Boy
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Puts a subcontinent between its covers... [A] massive and magnificent book.-The Sunday TimesSet in post-independence India, the novel follows for eighteen months or so four linked families in Calcutta, the province of Purva Pradesh, and the cities-Delhi, Kanpur, Lucknow-trawled by the heroines mother in her search for a suitable boy But the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart-with all its varieties of kindness and cruelty As with all the best books, one feels only dismay when the pages on the right of the tome start thinning out.-The ObserverThis novel, so vast and so amiably peopled, is a long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to life [It] covers India like a sun, warming a whole country in its historical rays.-The GuardianA magnificent display of artistic control A Suitable Boy is a page-turner.- Los Angeles Times[A] book to restore the serious reading publics faith in the contemporary novel... You should make time for [A Suitable Boy]. It will keep you company for the rest of your life.-The Times
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