A Suitable Boy. Book 2

Contemporary classic Vikram Seth is a true citizen of the world. Born in India, educated at Oxford, and also at Stanford University in California, where instead of a dissertation on economics, he wrote his first novel «The Golden Gate» about American yuppies - and it was a novel in verse; moreover, written from beginning to end in the Onegin stanza. Many years later, «A Suitable Boy» was published - «an epic, as multi-figured as the novels of Dickens or Trollope, and as vast as India itself» (San Francisco Chronicle), record-breaking in many ways: the longest novel in the history of English literature published in a single volume; translated into three dozen languages and a worldwide circulation reaching 26 million copies.

The action takes place in the fictional city of Brahmpur on the banks of the Ganges shortly after India gains independence; Mrs. Rupa Mehra, having married off her eldest daughter Savita, is trying to find a suitable groom for her youngest daughter, student Lata - and she, as a modern girl, has her own opinion on the matter and tends to listen not to the elders, but to her heart. Now she has to choose from three suitors - peer-student Kabir, famous poet Amit, and Haresh, an emerging star in the shoe business...

In 2020, the first channel of the BBC released a mini-series based on the novel, known in Russian as «A Suitable Husband»; directed by Mira Nair («Vanity Fair», «New York, I Love You»), and the script was written by the renowned Andrew Davies («Les Misérables», «War and Peace», «Brideshead Revisited», «Northanger Abbey», «Sense and Sensibility»).