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A Suitable Boy: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (Radio Collection) |  | Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 257771
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
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Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0563494433
EAN: 9780563494430
ASIN: 0563494433
Publication Date: June 2, 2003
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 86
 Fantastic September 2, 2010
Polly Pech
If I ever get on Desert Island Discs this would be my book of choice. Do not be put off by it's length, when you get to the end you just want more.
i had to read it again and again..truly sublime August 26, 2010
V Sinha
Please be careful when reading this book..
It's not a beautiful poignant love story, it's not a blockbuster, and it's not a treaty on life (dostoevsky he ain't) This is something way more
I read the one star reviews and I sort of see their point. They're saying there are too many characters (true), not a lot happens with the protagonist (true), so many conversations seem meaningless (true)..
So why is it still good? All these meaningless things and characters seem so much like life. It IS a sort of life and the reader feels part of it. This book is a magic carpet to a sort of parralel universe where we can laugh, or be a bit angry or feel whatever at any of the characters.
I kept stopping at page 1000 to go back to pg 200 and read again because i didn't wanna finish it. It's THAT good!
N.B - don't worry if you can't remember the character names.. it's not that important.
A beautiful intricate story. July 30, 2010
N. Mirza (London, UK)
A beautiful intricate story, full of detail and depth. Each charactor is so lovingly developed and so vivid. Perfect as a summer read.
 Another supposed modern classic June 19, 2010
Random
Yet again, another apparently amazing book which is the literary equivalent of trying to stay awake for an entire week - complete and utter turmoil.
I hate to give up on a book. However, after pushing on for almost 400 pages, I could go no further. Boring, slow and turgid. Nothing happens in lots of words, people are involved in meaningless conversations with others you have forgotten about. With so many similar characters it would have been useful to include a reference guide. The family tree is insufficient.
Don't bother with this drudgery.
A masterpiece May 31, 2010
Jennifer Malsingh (Bristol, UK)
There is only one problem with this book - once you get to the end, you will wish it was just a little longer so you could spend more time with the fantastic cast of characters you have met along the way.
Very broadly it could be described as a love story. But it is neither a story of love alone, or of even one kind of love. It is about brotherly love, sisterly love, the love of a mother for her son or daughter, the love of a husband for his wife, the love of an uncle for his nephew, of a man for his friend. Forbidden love, unwanted love, unrequited love, selfless love - they are all here.
The book covers a period of time from the marriage of one daughter, through the search for a suitable boy for her sister and finally to the second daughters marriage. In this time we are introduced to a vast array of different characters; some relatives, some friends and some just passers by; and exposed to a variety of different events - some good, some tragic.
No character in this book is a shallow shell, an incidental prop to the storyline. Every single person is shown to have multiple facets, and just as in real life it can soon be seen that none of them are either wholly good or wholly bad. The lay-about ministers son who seems to be born to do nothing shows himself to be an unashamed romantic, a loyal friend and defender of justice. On the other hand, he is also impulsive and prone to taking sudden and tragic action on the spur of the moment. His father's political rival seems to be quite a hardened and bigoted man, but on the other hand we soon see that he is deeply affectionate towards his daughter and misses her greatly now that she lives with her husbands family.
In a similarly realistic fashion, the events that occur in the course of the story unfold slowly in such a way that each preceeding events can be seen to have influenced those that follow. You can be half way through reading about a religious festival, which has been built up to for quite a while before, and suddenly you can see where Seth is leading you with unerring momentum, and it all seems so inevitable and so unavoidable that when something awful happens you feel like you should of expected it all along.
Politics, music, poetry, religion, caste, social obligations, women's rights, history, craftmanship, romance, friendship, family, trust, the expectations that parents have for their children, the exasperation that children have for their parents - these are some of the subjects that that Seth draws upon in this amazing book. His scope varies from the immense subject of post-independence politics to the very personal one of individual prejudices, superstitions and beliefs. From public outrage to family scandal, he seamlessly switches from the effect an event has on the nation to its consequences within a particular group of people. The result is that the book seems to be a living history, even though most of the characters and even the places are fictional. It feels real. It feels like a genuine piece of India.
A joy to read, this is a book that will stay in your mind for a very long time. Both comforting and eye-opening, you are sure to turn to it time and time again.
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