A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
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Reviews & Criticism

REVIEWS

King, Bruce
World literature in review: India
World Literature Today, Spring94, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p431, 2p

Ross, Robert L.
Magill Book Reviews; 09/01/1993

Jenkyns, Richard
As the Raj Turns.
New Republic; 6/14/93, Vol. 208 Issue 24, p41, 4p

Full-lotus fiction
Bemrose, John
Maclean’s; 5/31/93, Vol. 106 Issue 22, p46, 2p, 1c

Easy reading, heavy lifting
Shapiro, Laura
Newsweek; 5/24/93, Vol. 121 Issue 21, p62, 2/3p, 2c

Vikram Seth: Overview
Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A
Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed., edited by Susan Windisch Brown, St. James Press, 1996

CRITICISM

Doolally in Delhi, cushy in Campbellpur.
Economist; 5/29/93, Vol. 327 Issue 7813, p94, 1/2p
Discusses some of the linguistic similarities between Britain and India. Words which entered British English from the Indian language; How the beauty of Indo-Anglian writing is reflected in Vikram Seth's novel `A Suitable Boy'; Why Indian English preserves an elegance that many Britons have forgotten.

Srivastava, Neelam
The Languages of the Nation in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy.
16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies

Atkins, Angela
Land as Legislative Space in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy and Phanishwarnath Renu's Maila Anchal
SOAS Literary Review (3), Spring 2002

Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Atkins, Angela