Новинки 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 десятка языков и всемирный тираж, достигший 26 миллионов экземпляров.
Действие происходит в вымышленном городе Брахмпур на берегу Ганга вскоре после обретения Индией независимости; госпожа Рупа Мера, выдав замуж старшую дочь Савиту, пытается найти достойного жениха для младшей дочери, студентки Латы, – а та, как девушка современная, имеет свое мнение на этот счет и склонна слушать не старших, а собственное сердце…
В 2020 году первый канал Би-би-си выпустил по роману мини-сериал, известный по-русски как «Подходящий жених»; постановщиком выступила Мира Наир («Ярмарка тщеславия», «Нью-Йорк, я люблю тебя»), а сценарий написал прославленный Эндрю Дэвис («Отверженные», «Война и мир», «Возвращение в Брайдсхед», «Нортенгерское аббатство», «Разум и чувства»).

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 десятка языков и всемирный тираж, достигший 26 миллионов экземпляров.

Действие происходит в вымышленном городе Брахмпур на берегу Ганга вскоре после обретения Индией независимости; госпожа Рупа Мера, выдав замуж старшую дочь Савиту, пытается найти достойного жениха для младшей дочери, студентки Латы, — а та, как девушка современная, имеет свое мнение на этот счет и склонна слушать не старших, а свое сердце. Теперь ей предстоит выбрать из трех ухажеров — сверстника-студента Кабира, знаменитого поэта Амита и Хареша, восходящей звезды обувного бизнеса...

В 2020 году первый канал Би-би-си выпустил по роману мини-сериал, известный по-русски как «Подходящий жених»; постановщиком выступила Мира Наир («Ярмарка тщеславия», «Нью-Йорк, я люблю тебя»), а сценарий написал прославленный Эндрю Дэвис («Отверженные», «Война и мир», «Возвращение в Брайдсхед», «Нортэнгерское аббатство», «Разум и чувства»).

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…

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.

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.

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata - and her mother's - attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. At the same time, it is the story of India, newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great general election and the chance to map its own destiny.

Shortlisted for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, 1993.Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1994.Winner of the WH Smith Literary Award, 1994.A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with. There are standards to be met and finding a husband for Lata becomes a family affair in which all the members are to play a part. The characters struggle, they try to buck the system, to break free of restraint, of interference - but ultimately their strength and sense of being comes from their family and friends. It is a celebration of ordinariness; a beautifully composed story that is an affirmation of family and friendship. In his sweeping epic, Vikram Seth has created an entire world filled with warmth, humour, pathos, tragedy - in short, life. Recorded on location in India, A Suitable Boy is made by the production team behind the award-winning Bleak House and The Handmaid's Tale.2018 will be the 25th anniversary of the first publication of this classic story.

TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But a friendship developed and each managed to leave Germany and found their way to Britain as the Nazis rose to power. Shanti joined the army and lost his right arm at the battle of Monte Cassino, while Henny (whose family were to die in the camps) made a life for herself in her adopted country. After the war they married and lived the emigre life in north London where Shanti, despite the loss of his arm, became a much-loved dentist. During his own adolescence in England, Vikram Seth lived with Shanti and Henny and came to know and love them deeply. His is the third life in this story of TWO LIVES. This is also a book about history, encompassing as it does many of the most significant themes and events in the 20th century, whose currents are reflected in the lives of Shanti, Henny and their family: from the Raj and the Indian freedom movement to the Third Reich, the Holocaust and British postwar society.

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.

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.

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.

Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great General Election and the chance to map its own destiny.

Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great General Election and the chance to map its own destiny. 'A SUITABLE BOY may prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of this century - perhaps even the book to restore the serious reading public's faith in the contemporary novel ...You should make time for it. It will keep you company for the rest of your life' Daniel Johnson, The Times

Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great General Election and the chance to map its own destiny. 'A SUITABLE BOY may prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of this century - perhaps even the book to restore the serious reading public's faith in the contemporary novel ... You should make time for it. It will keep you company for the rest of your life' Daniel Johnson, The Times

"The great California novel been written, in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy."--Gore Vidal One of the most highly regarded novels of 1986, Vikram Seth's story in verse made him a literary household name in both the United States and India. John Brown, a successful yuppie living in 1980s San Francisco meets a romantic interest in Liz, after placing a personal ad in the newspaper. From this interaction, John meets a variety of characters, each with their own values and ideas of "self-actualization." However, Liz begins to fall in love with John's best friend, and John realizes his journey of self-discovery has only…

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.