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47 reviews
Vikram Seth

Vintage, 1991

Speechless...
If by some unimaginible twist of fate, for some unspeakable crime, I were to be condemned to a small, desolate island for the rest of my life and allowed to carry with me but one book, the choice would be easy: Golden Gate by Vikram Seth. It would be easy for the obvious: reading this book is so pleasurable it makes one feel guilty (as in "Oh god I don't deserve to be so happy!!"). It would be ...

a suitable boy

201 reviews
vikram seth

McArthur & Company, 2001

India-made Understandable to a Westerners Eyes
Hello Book-Lovers of the Amazon World, Today, I finished reading "A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth. I spent most of the month of July '08, except for a 9 day holiday in Ontario, Canada, reading this massive and informative book about Post-Independence India. Mr. Vikram Seth has populated the story with memorable charactors, such as Lata Mehra, Mrs. Rupha Mehra, Mahesh Kapoor and his family,the ...

Beastly Tales from Here and There

9 reviews
Vikram Seth

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1999

"Beastly Tales" out of Print, AN INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE
Everything is great about these poems. The rhymes are clever, beautiful and very often funny. In the tales the good wins from the bad, but after trial and tribulations, and always in unexpected ways. One of my favourite lines is about a goat and a ram: "They ate with pride as if to balance, their total lack of other talents". But quoting excellent lines would take about as long as the book ...

Two Lives

22 reviews
Vikram Seth

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2005

dramatic & fascinating historical overview; great cast of characters
I am about 80% of the way through this huge book. I should start by saying I have rarely read books in the 4 years since I left university; and I didn't intend to read this one. I was just carrying it on the tube (metro) after someone insisted on lending it to me, and started flipping through the first few pages. Next thing I knew, and I was on page 300 a few days later. True, I must agree with ...

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

15 reviews
Vikram Seth

Vintage, 1987

Celebrating wanderlust
Much has been said about travel broadening vision, and the journal of a traveller who has a universal view of life makes a rich reading experience. From Heaven Lake is more than a travel book that traverses the length and breadth of a place with smatterings of history, geography and local culture - It is a verbal album of direct images that personify the soul of the areas. The book contains ...

An Equal Music

178 reviews
Vikram Seth

Broadway, 1999

Authentic
You will rarely find more authentic insights into the lives of classical musicians. Aside from the fact that this is a great book and compelling story, the realism of it is overwhelming. Highly recommend.

Two Lives
Vikram Seth

McArthur & Company, 2005

An Equal Music

2 reviews
Vikram Seth

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1999

If you love Bach...
This romantic novel spends more time than you can imagine on Bach's "Art of the Fugue," so don't read it if you don't love Bach or don't care to hear it discussed. But if you love chamber music and enjoy a nice, schmalzty romance, you'll love this book.

Not a Nice Man to Know: The Best of Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh

Penguin Books, 1992

IS A SELECTION OF THE BEST FICTION AND POETRY THAT APPEARED IN VAGARTHA.

Three Chinese Poets

2 reviews
Vikram Seth

Viking (India), 2005

Translated ideas can impress too!
I picked this book primarily because after reading both verse and prose from the author, I know the translation would make a great reading. It did. I liked the poetry, the ideas, and whatever Chinese poets must have thought about was communicated as well as possible in well-compiled text. I cannot read or understand Chinese, but my Chinese friends found the translations to be inadequate and ...

All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems

5 reviews
Vikram Seth

Vintage, 1991

elegant sad and wise to acceptance
His poems tell of places and moments of pain, but they are of the culture and cultures of life. Reading the title poem one can only nod their head, while Lithuania will make you shake, Mistaken you will blush and Telephone will make you laugh...and sigh. Try it and see if you don't!

From Heaven Lake
Vikram Seth

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1993

`The perfect travel book' New Statesman Hitch-hiking, walking, slogging through rivers and across leech-ridden hills, Vikram Seth travelled through Sinkiang and Tibet to Nepal: from Heaven Lake to the Himalayas. By breaking away from the reliable routes of organised travel, he transformed his journey into an unusual and intriguing exploration of one of the world's least known areas. 'Vikram Seth is already the best writer of his ...

The Humble Administrator's Garden

1 review
Vikram Seth

Viking (India), 2005

Lyrical imagery from China, India and California!
Research in Jiangsu Province The Yangtse flows on like brown tape. The research forms take final shape, Each figure like a laden boat With white or madder sails afloat. Float on, float on, O facts and facts, Distilled compendia of past acts, Reveal the Grand Design to me, Flotilla of my PhD. In this collection, Vikram Seth has poetry and imagery from China, India and America. The poetry is ...

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