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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 |