If Jane Austen had lived in India in the 1950s, she would have written this richly detailed novel of love and marriage. And at 1500 pages, it's an entirely suitable book to take on a 24-hour plane ride.
BookMark: A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth (Harper Perennial, 1994)
By CYNTHIA BERGER
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May 3, 2006