GK
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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My God Died Young
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Islamic Bomb
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Look Back in Anger
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A Suitable Boy
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Detailed explanation-1: -’A Suitable Boy’ book has been written by Vikram Seth. It is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English language.
Detailed explanation-2: -The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a “suitable boy". Lata is a 19-year-old university student who refuses to be influenced by her domineering mother or opinionated brother, Arun.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vikram Seth has written acclaimed books in several genres: verse novel, The Golden Gate; travel book, From Heaven Lake; animal fables, Beastly Tales; epic fiction, A Suitable Boy. His most recent novel, An Equal Music, was published in 1999. He lives in England and India.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seth’s first ‘novel’-The Golden Gate-was published in 1986. It is composed of no less than 690 rhyming tetrameter sonnets (more than 7000 lines).