A Suitable Boy
eAudio - 2007
A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world.The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed, by an all-Indian cast, quite superbly. The novel may be vast but I was convinced by this version right from the start. Magnificent drama' - Radio TimesA Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly-observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle-class families - the Mehras, Kapoors, Khans and... Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with. There are standards to be met and finding a husband for Lata...
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BBC Audio
- Language
- English
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- Online Access
- Overdrive Resource Page
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 166 GB |
Parts | 5 |
ISBN | 9781405679879 |
Release Date | 5/7/2007 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 166 GB |
ISBN | 9781405679879 |
Release Date | 5/7/2007 |