I Just Read This To Share With You » Vikram Seth http://www.ijustreadthis.com Gossip of the day Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:23:56 +0000 en hourly 1 admin admin Just another WordPress weblog No No Three Chinese Poets (1994) Reviewed – by Vikram Seth http://www.ijustreadthis.com/three-chinese-poets-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html http://www.ijustreadthis.com/three-chinese-poets-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:59:27 +0000 admin http://www.ijustreadthis.com/three-chinese-poets-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html Seth, who studied classical Chinese poetry at Nanjing University and is fluent in Mandarin, translates the works of the three Tang dynasty poets – Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu – and proves with his deft lyricism that it takes an Asian to truly capture the aesthetic of these poets.

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]]> http://www.ijustreadthis.com/three-chinese-poets-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html/feed 0 A Suitable Boy (1994) Reviewed – by Vikram Seth http://www.ijustreadthis.com/a-suitable-boy-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html http://www.ijustreadthis.com/a-suitable-boy-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:56:02 +0000 admin http://www.ijustreadthis.com/a-suitable-boy-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html Set in the fictional provincial town of Brahmpur in India in the 1950s, this lyrical domestic drama tells the story of four Indian families in the years after the partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan.  It centres on a mother's quest to find a son-in-law.  The book won te 1994 Commonwealth WRiters' Prize.

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]]> http://www.ijustreadthis.com/a-suitable-boy-1994-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html/feed 0 The Golden Gate (1986) Reviewed – by Vikram Seth http://www.ijustreadthis.com/the-golden-gate-1986-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html http://www.ijustreadthis.com/the-golden-gate-1986-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:14:33 +0000 admin http://www.ijustreadthis.com/the-golden-gate-1986-reviewed-by-vikram-seth.html The Golden Gate (1986).

YES, it is written entirely in a tetrameter sonnet form, but Seth's observant eye captures the idiosyncrasies of a group of friends in Marin County, California, and it deals with contemporary issues such as vegetarianism, feminism and anti-nuclear marches.  It won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1986.

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YES, it is written entirely in a tetrameter sonnet form, but Seth's observant eye captures the idiosyncrasies of a group of friends in Marin County, California, and it deals with contemporary issues such as vegetarianism, feminism and anti-nuclear marches.  It won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1986.

 

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