Vikram Seth

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Books by Vikram Seth

A Suitable Boy on Buddenbrooks: “It was Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, and it was unutterably dull.”
A Suitable Boy on Twelfth Night: “‘What’s that book?’ ‘Twelfth Night.’ ‘No, the other one—the one with the green and white cover.’”
A Suitable Boy on The Dead: “‘“The Dead”,’ said Dr Narayanan.”
A Suitable Boy on Emma: “‘What’ll you read on the way?’ ‘Emma.’ ‘Not like our saloons, is it?’”
A Suitable Boy on Julius Caesar: “he was talking about the play that he had put on for Annual Day the previous year: Julius Caesar—a typical university choice”
A Suitable Boy on Don Juan: “As does Thackeray’s father and one of Dickens’s sons, and the original for Byron’s Don Juan,’ said Amit, with a proper Calcuttan pride.”
A Suitable Boy on Moby-Dick: “I thought of what happened when Maan decided to play Holi with Moby-Dick.’”
A Suitable Boy on Cymbeline: “I read Cymbeline in just that way on the train here; and I never would have otherwise.”
A Suitable Boy on Finnegans Wake: “There is the worse than unreadable Finnegans Wake.”
A Suitable Boy on Howards End: “Sandeep Lahiri sat down in the stationmaster’s office and pulled Howards End out of his bag.”