The modern classic Vikram Seth is a true citizen of the world. Born in India, he studied at Oxford and Stanford University in California, where instead of a dissertation in economics he wrote his first novel, The Golden Gate, about American yuppies — and it was a novel in verse; moreover, it was written from beginning to end in Onegin stanzas. And after many years of work, The Worthy Groom was published — “an epic, multi-figured, like the novels of Dickens or Trollope, and as vast as India itself” (San Francisco Chronicle), a record in many respects: the longest novel in the history of English literature that was published in one volume; translations into three dozen languages and a worldwide circulation of 26 million copies.
The action takes place in the fictional city of Brahmpur on the banks of the Ganges shortly after India gained independence; Mrs. Rupa Mehra, having married off her eldest daughter Savita, is trying to find a worthy groom for her youngest daughter, a student Lata, who, as a modern girl, has her own opinion on this matter and is inclined to listen not to her elders, but to her own heart...
In 2020, BBC One released a mini-series based on the novel, known in Russian as “A Suitable Groom”; the director was Mira Nair (“Vanity Fair”, “New York, I Love You”), and the script was written by the renowned Andrew Davies (“Les Miserables”, “War and Peace”, “Brideshead Revisited”, “Northanger Abbey”, “Sense and Sensibility”).
Author: Vikram Seth
Translation: Romanova E. I., Olear Andrey Mikhailovich, Kalyavina Elena Yurievna
Year of issue: 2024
Publisher: Inostranka
Cover type: hardcover
Pages: 880
Dimensions:
220x150x40 mm
ISBN:
978-5-389-19027-6