A Suitable Boy: 20Th Anniversary Edition
�Set in post-independence India, the novel follows for eighteen months or so four linked families in Calcutta, the province of Purva Pradesh and its capital Brahmpur, and the cities�Delhi, Kanpur, Lucknow�trawled by the heroine�s mother in her search for a �suitable boy�� But the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart�with all its varieties of kindness and cruelty, its capacity for hurt� As with all the best books, one feels only dismay when the pages on the right of the tome start thinning out.�� The Observer
Categories: Fiction
