Vikaram Seth is one of the finest writers of India and his novels are always considered as the best. A suitable boy is a novel by the veteran writer and the book is based on a love story. This book is set in the early 1950s, in an India recently independent and struggling through a time of catastrophe, A Suitable Boy is a journey that takes its readers into the opulently imagined world of four large extended families and revolves a instinctively readable story of their lives and loves. The book is a comprehensive panoramic sketch of a multifaceted; multi ethnic society in change, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a maze of love and ambition, humor and sadness, chauvinism and understanding which is the most fragile social etiquette and the most atrocious violence. This book is like his any other book and is extremely interesting to read.
