A Worthy Groom. Book 1
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A Worthy Groom. Book 1
14.99 €
11.99 €
Modern classicist 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 thesis in economics he wrote his first novel, Golden Gate, about American yuppies - and it was a novel in verse; moreover, it was written in Onegin's stanza from beginning to end. And after many years of work came out and "The Worthy Groom" - "an epic, multifigure, like the novels of Dickens or Trollope, and immense, like India itself" (San Francisco Chronicle), a record for many indicators: the longest in the history of English literature novel, which managed to publish a single 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 soon after India's independence; Mrs. Rupa Mera, having married off her eldest daughter Savita, is trying to find a worthy groom for her younger daughter, a student Lata - and the latter, as a modern girl, has her own opinion on the matter and is inclined to listen not to her elders, but to her own heart... In 2020, the first channel of the BBC released a mini-series on the novel, known in Russian as "The Suitable Groom", directed by Mira Nair ("Vanity Fair", "New York, I Love You"), and the script was written by the famous Andrew Davis ("Les Miserables", "War and Peace", "Return to Brideshead", "Northanger Abbey", "Sense and Sensibility").
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Big Novel