A Suitable Boy and other Indian Tales

Vikram Seth’s epic family saga, A Suitable Boy, is airing on BBC One from this Sunday.  Set in India in 1951, just after independence and partition, in essence, it is the story of Mrs Rupa Mehra’s hunt for a husband for her daughter, Lata and is one of the BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped Our World.

This novel, as well as other great novels set in India, such as The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy,  A Passage to India by E M Forster and The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, are available to borrow from the EPHS Library from September.