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Best books to read after A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
If Vikram Seth's vast, warm portrait of 1951 India captivated you, these picks span Indian fiction in English, large-canvas novels of post-colonial societies, and the tradition of the great family saga.
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Buy on AmazonMidnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
The other great novel of Indian independence — Saleem Sinai's magical-realist epic covering the same political moment in a completely different register.
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Buy on AmazonThe God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Roy's Booker Prize novel of Kerala, caste, and forbidden love — Indian fiction at its most poetic and precise.
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Buy on AmazonThe White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
Adiga's Booker-winning dark comedy of modern India — the country A Suitable Boy hoped to become, seen from the bottom.
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Buy on AmazonTrain to Pakistan
by Khushwant Singh
The Partition that shadowed the 1951 India of A Suitable Boy — what the founding violence looked like from a border village.
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Buy on AmazonA Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
Mistry's large-canvas novel of India in 1975 — four lives converging during the Emergency, as warm and as heartbreaking as Seth.
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Buy on AmazonThe Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Another slow, beautiful novel of a world passing — Stevens the butler and A Suitable Boy's characters share the elegiac quality of people who don't know they are living in the last of something.
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Buy on AmazonThe Golden Gate
by Vikram Seth
Seth's earlier novel in 690 sonnets — a very different book that shows the same formal daring at smaller scale.
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Buy on AmazonThe Moor's Last Sigh
by Salman Rushdie
Rushdie's family saga of four generations of Bombay merchants — the same panoramic scope in a more baroque mode.
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