Posted by Guillermo Maynez
on 2/7/2009, 20:53:11, in reply to "Seth to pen a sequel to Suitable Boy"
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Great! I will read it.
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: Probably too much to expect it to be as good as the
: original, but still a welcome development...
:
: 20 years on, Vikram Seth to pen a sequel to Suitable
: Boy
:
: The Times of India
: 3 Jul 2009, 0209 hrs
:
: Twenty years after Mrs Rupa Mehra set out to look for
: a suitable boy for her daughter, it�ll be Lata�s turn
: to find a suitable girl for her grandson. After
: keeping everybody guessing all these years, it�s
: finally confirmed that writer Vikram Seth is working
: on the sequel of his best-selling 1993 novel A
: Suitable Boy, suitably titled A Suitable Girl, to be
: published in 2013.
:
: Seth admits that he wasn�t inspired earlier to write
: the sequel. ��It�s now that I feel interested in Lata
: as a grandmother living in the present. My publishers
: had been after me for years to write a sequel but I
: didn�t feel inspired enough. I am happy the muse has
: returned,�� says Seth from his London home where he is
: presently writing the novel. The story has progressed
: quite a bit in his head, though not as much on the
: paper, he adds.
:
: A Suitable Girl will be published by Hamish Hamilton,
: a Penguin imprint. It has bought world English
: language rights from Seth�s literary agent David
: Godwin for a mind-boggling sum which Seth refuses to
: speak about. A Suitable Boy had created history for
: the $1.1 million advance it received from Indian,
: British and American publishers of the book. It
: further broke records � a first for an Indian writer �
: when the 1,350 page book sold over a quarter of a
: million copies in hardback and over a million in
: paperback.
:
: A Suitable Boy was set in the 1950s India against a
: newly independent India. It followed the stories of
: four middle-class families, all interweaved, as Mrs
: Rupa Mehra set about searching a boy for her
: 19-year-old sprightly daughter Lata.
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