Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth


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  • Author: Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth (sayt) is best known for his novels. A Suitable Boy (1993), a family epic set in postcolonial India, is a monumental 1,349-page work that received mixed reviews but that became one of Seth’s best-known works. An Equal Music (1999), set in contemporary London, is a love story about the members of a string quartet. Seth wrote a prizewinning travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, published in 1983, and translated Chinese poetry in Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang...

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