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A Suitable Boy : A Novel (Perennial Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Vikram Seth Paperback, 1,488 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-06-078652-3 / 0060786523 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-078652-6 / 9780060786526 Vikram 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, |