Seth’s Suitable Girl in 2013

Indian poet and novelist Vikram Seth is writing a sequel to his acclaimed, monumental story A Suitable Boy, to be titled A Suitable Girl.

Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton bought the English language rights to the new novel, excluding the US, from Seth’s agent David Godwin, and expects it to be published in 2013, 20 years after the original.

Asked why he was returning to his best-known work, 1,300 pages long, Seth replied: “I think it’s just that I suddenly got the idea not of taking up the story in 1952, where I had left it, but rather to take it up in the present...

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