Worthy groom. Book 1

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Contemporary classic Vikram Seth is a true citizen of the world. Born in India, studied at Oxford and also at Stanford University in California, where, instead of a dissertation in economics, he wrote his first novel, Golden Gate, about American yuppies - and it was a novel in verse; moreover, written from beginning to end in Onegin's stanza. And after many years of work, The Worthy Bridegroom came out - “an epic, multi-figured, like the novels of Dickens or Trollope, and immense, like India itself” (San Francisco Chronicle), a record in many respects: the longest novel in the history of English literature, which managed to publish 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 Indian independence; Mrs. Rupa Mera, having married her eldest daughter Savita, is trying to find a worthy groom for her youngest daughter, a student of Lata, - and she, like 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, the first channel The BBC produced a mini-series based on the novel, known in Russian as A Suitable Bridegroom; Mira Nair (Vanity Fair, New York, I Love You) was directed by the acclaimed Andrew Davies (Les Misérables, War and Peace, Brideshead Revisited, Northanger Abbey, Mind and Feelings).

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Publication language: Russian

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