A suitable boy

Vikram Seth

Original title: A Suitable Boy

first published 1993 HarperCollins, 2000 audiobook

The tale of Lata's and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through maternal appraisal. Set in post-independence India and involving the lives of four families, it is also an explanation of a whole continent faced with its first great General Election.

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Editions we hold

A Suitable Boy paperback · 2005 · Harper Perennial Modern Classics · 1474 pages · 9780060786526
A Suitable Boy audiobook · 2003 · BBC Audiobooks America · 9780563496663
A Suitable Boy audiobook · 2003 · BBC Audiobooks America · 9780563496656
A Suitable Boy audiobook · 2000 · HarperCollins · 9780007105670
A Suitable Boy paperback · 1995 · Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) · 592 pages · 9781857993592
A Suitable Boy paperback · 1995 · Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) · 704 pages · 9781857993578
A Suitable Boy paperback · 1995 · Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) · 621 pages · 9781857993585
A Suitable Boy paperback · 1994 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 1408 pages · 9781897580851
A suitable boy paperback · 1994 · Phoenix · 1474 pages
A suitable boy edition · 1994 · Penguin India
A suitable boy paperback · 1994 · HarperPerennial · 1474 pages
A Suitable Boy audiobook · 1994 · Argo · 9781858498164

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