{"product_id":"a-suitable-boy-by-vikram-seth-9780060786526","title":"A Suitable Boy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, \u003cem\u003eA Suitable Boy\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humour, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47636070629612,"sku":"9780060786526","price":66.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71nE4pDB7GL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778921781","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-suitable-boy-by-vikram-seth-9780060786526","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}