Лучшие книги Викрам Сет

Современный классик Викрам Сет — настоящий гражданин мира. Родился в Индии, учился в Оксфорде, а также в Стэнфордском университете в Калифорнии, где вместо диссертации по экономике написал свой первый роман «Золотые Ворота» об американских яппи — и это был роман в стихах; более того, от начала до конца написанный онегинской строфой. А через много лет работы вышел и «Достойный жених» — «эпопея, многофигурная, как романы Диккенса или Троллопа, и необъятная, как сама Индия» (San Francisco Chronicle), рекордная по многим показателям: самый длинный в истории английской литературы роман, какой удавалось опубликовать одним томом; переводы на три…

Современный классик Викрам Сет — настоящий гражданин мира. Родился в Индии, учился в Оксфорде, а также в Стэнфордском университете в Калифорнии, где вместо диссертации по экономике написал свой первый роман «Золотые Ворота» об американских яппи — и это был роман в стихах; более того, от начала до конца написанный онегинской строфой. А через много лет работы вышел и «Достойный жених» — «эпопея, многофигурная, как романы Диккенса или Троллопа, и необъятная, как сама Индия» (San Francisco Chronicle), рекордная по многим показателям: самый длинный в истории английской литературы роман, какой удавалось опубликовать одним томом; переводы на три…

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.

Действие романа в стихах индийского писателя, переводчика Викрама Сета (род. 1952) происходит в Калифорнии в 1980-х гг. Главный герой книги, благополучный сан-францисский яппи времен бума Кремниевой долины, вдруг ощущает тщету существования. Двадцатишестилетний байронит, его возлюбленные и друзья предпринимают попытку ответить на главные вопросы современности.

In the summer of 1981, Vikram Seth, an Indian postgraduate student at Nanjing University, decided on a politically difficult and geographically hazardous journey: he would hitchhike home to Delhi by way of Tibet.
Seth is equal to the challenge, and moreover proves to be an observant and resourceful traveler. He endures bureaucratic delay, climatic extremes and the protracted discomforts of long-distance lorries with equal aplomb. In the event, he makes his way from the arid wastes of China's far west to the Potala Palace in Lhasa.

A heartrending new book -- the story of a marriage and the story of two lives -- from the author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy

Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up in India in the apparently vigorous but dying Raj and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin -- though he could not speak a word of German -- to study medicine and dentistry. It was here, before he migrated to Britain, that Shanti's path first crossed that of his future wife.

Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as "Henny" was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family -- cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny's first reaction was, "Don't take the black man!" But a friendship flowered, and when Henny fled Hitler's Germany for England just one month before war broke out, she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti.

Vikram Seth has woven together their astonishing story, which recounts the arrival into this childless couple's lives of their great-nephew from India -- the teenage student Vikram Seth. The result is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain.

Two Lives is both a history of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate portrait of their friendship, marriage, and abiding yet complex love. Part biography, part memoir, part meditation on our times, this is the true tale of two remarkable lives -- a masterful telling from one of our greatest living writers.

A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music… An Equal Music is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is a story of Michael, of Julia and of the love that binds them.