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As with all the best books, one feels only dismay when the pages on the right of the tome start thinning out.’  \n—Observer  \n‘So vast and so amiably peopled [A Suitable Boy] is a long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to life. Rich and epical, A Suitable Boy is nonetheless strikingly unpretentious . . . In 1,400 pages [the novel] covers India like a sun, warming a whole country in its historical rays . . . It is almost impossible to imagine an unswayed reader.’  \n—Guardian  \n‘Not merely one of the longest novels in English; it may also prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of [the twentieth] century.’  \n—The Times  \n‘A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel of 19th century storytelling in the language of today . . . It is hard to believe that Seth is only one man. He writes with the omniscience and authority of a large, orderly committee of experts on Indian politics, law, medicine, crowd psychology, urban and rural social customs, dress, cuisine, horticulture, funerary rites, cricket and even the technicalities of shoe manufacture.’  \n—Evening Standard  \n‘Conceived on the grand scale of the great 19th century novels—War and Peace, Middlemarch—A Suitable Boy grows to match them in breadth and depth . . .  \n[A] massive and magnificent book.’  \n—Sunday Times  \n‘We should be grateful for this panoramic sweep which revives in our memory a period when a whole way of life came to an end . . . [ Seth’s] sure touch is really  \nquite incredible, his characters are consistent from beginning to end.’  \n—The Hindu  \n‘A quietly monumental novel . . . [ Seth] has given that unlikeliest of hybrids, a modest tour de force.’  \n—Times Literary Supplement ‘An immensely enjoyable novel which describes with unhurried pace the panorama of India . . . Everything appears familiar to us, yet in fact it is newly minted by a master artist.’  \n—Hindustan Times  \nA Suitable Boy  \nVIKRAM SETH  \nCopyright  \nA Phoenix ebook  \nFirst published in Great Britain in 1993 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson This ebook published in 2013 by Phoenix © Vikram Seth 1993  \nThe right of Vikram Seth to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nAll the characters in this book are fictitious.  \nAny resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nISBN: 978 1 7802 2790 0  \nThe Orion Publishing Group Ltd Orion House  \n5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane London, WC2H 9EA  \n[An Hachette UK company](An Hachette UK company www.orionbooks.co.uk)[ www.orionbooks.co.uk](An Hachette UK company www.orionbooks.co.uk)  \nTo Papa and Mama and the memory of Amma  \nContents  \nCover  \nPraise for A Suitable Boy Title Page  \nCopyright Dedication Acknowledgements Epigraph  \nPart One 1.1  \n1.2  \n1.3  \n1.4  \n1.5  \n1.6  \n1.7  \n1.8  \n1.9  \n1.10  \n1.11  \n1.12  \n1.13  \n1.14  \n1.15  \n1.16  \n1.17  \n1.18  \n1.19  \nPart Two 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9  \n2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19  \n2.20  \nPart Three 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4  \n3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10  \n3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20  \nPart Four 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9  \n4.10  \n4.11  \nPart Five 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10  \n5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16","cbCaivNO4Ui0UpSA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivNO4Ui0UpSA","pdf",6654983,1519,"English","# Contents\n## Part One\n## Part Two\n## Part Three\n## Part Four\n## Part Five\n## Part Six","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of A Suitable Boy?\",\"answer\":\"Vikram Seth is identified as the author of A Suitable Boy in the document front matter.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the copyright and rights section state?\",\"answer\":\"It states that all rights are reserved and that no part of the publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted without prior written permission from the publisher.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the novel structured in the table of contents?\",\"answer\":\"The contents divide the work into six parts, each containing multiple numbered chapters (e.g., 1.1, 1.2, etc.).\"}]","A Suitable Boy - A Phoenix ebook | PDF",1789939184,2339]