A worthy groom. Book 1. Seth V.

Modern classic Vikram Seth is a real citizen of the world. Born in India, studied at Oxford, as well as at the University of Stanford in California, where instead of a dissertation in the economy he wrote his first novel “Golden Gate” about American Jappi - and it was a novel in verses; Moreover, from beginning to end written by the Onegin stanza. And after many years of work, “a worthy groom” came out - “epic, multi -figured, like Dickens or trollop novels, and immense, like India itself” (San Francisco Chronicle), record in many respects: the longest romance in the history of English literature, which It was possible to publish in one volume; Three dozen translations and a worldwide circulation, reaching 26 million copies.

The action takes place in the fictional city of Brahmpur on the shore of Ganges shortly after India gained independence; Mrs. Rupa Mera, having married the eldest daughter of Savita, is trying to find a worthy groom for the youngest daughter, a student of Lati - and she, like a modern girl, has his opinion on this subject and tends to listen not to senior, but his own heart...

In 2020, the Channel One of the BBC released on the novel a mini-series, known in Russian as a “suitable groom”; The director Naire (“Fair of vanity”, “New York, I love you”) acted as the director), and the script was written by the famous Andrew Davis (“outcasts”, “War and Peace”, “Return to Braidshead”, “Northenger Abbey”, “ Reason and feelings ").