Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, [...]
'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind That I am forever waking in a lost country...' SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of sum[...]
A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Yehrin Ton[...]
The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years ea[...]
After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, Buddhists and others.
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Written in verse, this was Vikram Seth's first novel. Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of California's silicon valley, it is the story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.[...]
Dejstvie romana v stikhakh indijskogo pisatelja, perevodchika Vikrama Seta (rod. 1952) proiskhodit v Kalifornii v 1980-kh gg. Glavnyj geroj knigi, blagopoluchnyj san-frantsisskij jappi vremen buma Kremnievoj doliny, vdrug oschuschaet tschetu suschestvovanija. Dvadtsatishestiletnij bajronit, ego vozl[...]
Vikram Seths To liv er basert på hans indiske grandonkels historie. Grandonkelen ble sendt til Tyskland fra India for å studere til tannlege i 1930-årene. Der fikk han husly hos en jødisk familie som ikke var særlig begeistret for den mørkhudete mannen. Senere på 30-tallet måtte familien fl[...]
* A story of love and survival amidst the great events of the twentieth century.
A powerful love story from the author of the international bestseller A SUITABLE BOY
The classic Number One bestseller from award-winning author Vikram Seth.