- Biography, Homes and haunts, Family, East Indians
Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy -- tells the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Vikram Seth
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 503
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company, Penguin Viking, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316727761
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