{"product_id":"a-suitable-boy-9781780227894b","title":"A Suitable Boy","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Suitable Boy \u003c\/span\u003etells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVikram Seth’s novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata’s—and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s—attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, this compelling story takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction.” —Jonathan Yardley, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWashington Post Book World \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42869420818512,"sku":"9781780227894B","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781780227894-l.jpg?v=1785896479","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/a-suitable-boy-9781780227894b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}