Vikram Seth

«Tu també et casaràs amb qui jo digui».Amb aquesta rotunditat la senyora Rupa Mehra es dirigeix a la seva filla Lata i ens obre la porta d’aquesta novel·la colossal. La recerca d'un bon partit per a

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"Tu tambe et casaras amb qui jo digui". Amb aquesta rotunditat la senyora Rupa Mehra es dirigeix a la seva filla Lata i ens obre la porta d’aquesta novel•la colossal. La recerca d'un bon partit per a la jove es el motor de la narracio, que transcorre en la India dels anys cinquanta, un pais que encara sent les ferides de la independencia i on la modernitzacio topa amb els costums ancestrals. Emmarcat en la tradicio de Tolstoi, George Eliot o Jane Austen, Seth ens ofereix un fresc extraordinari, un tall de vida en el qual els personatges bateguen, estimen, odien i lluiten per escapar el seu desti... o per reconduir-lo.

Offers a love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial rule. This title is about Lata, and of her mother's exacting attempts to find her the perfect husband. It also recounts India's troubles shaping its own destiny as the country marches towards its first great General Election.

Michael Holme, violinista de gran talent a qui s'havia augurat una carrera brillant com a solista, ha acabat de segon violí en un quartet de corda, una posició tan còmoda i sense expectatives com la seva vida, que transcorre grisa i trista en un Londres igualment gris i trist. Michael no està fet per a aquest món i només viu per a dues coses: Schubert i el seu violí. Però la seva campana de vidre es trenca una tarda que, enmig del brogit de la ciutat, creu veure Júlia, una pianista que havia estimat i que no ha vist des de fa deu anys. Michael s'hi abocarà amb tota l'ànima fins a retrobar-la —com si aquest viatge al passat fos l'únic que pogués donar sentit a la seva existència— i reviurà el seu amor fins que un secret dolorós li farà entendre que la vida poques vegades dóna una segona oportunitat.

Una década antes de alcanzar la celebridad con su novela Un buen partido, Vikram Seth pasó dos años en China, estudiando en la Universidad de Nanjing. En 1981, aprovechando las vacaciones de verano, el escritor indio decidió hacer el camino de regreso a Nueva Delhi a través de Tíbet y Nepal. Su plan era atravesar la provincia de Sinkiang y visitar el legendario lago del Cielo, en el noroeste del país, para intentar luego entrar en Tíbet y llegar a la ciudad de Lasha; después seguiría viajando hacia Katmandú. El relato de ese itinerario apasionante, plagado de sorpresas y anécdotas y escrito con un agudo sentido del detalle, mereció en 1983 el prestigioso premio Thomas Cook de Literatura de Viajes.

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Este entrañable relato, basado en el libreto escrito para ópera, y redactado en una interesante combinación de prosa y verso, cuenta la historia de Arión, un joven músico de la corte de Periandro, de la antigua Grecia; entre las numerosas aventuras a las que se ve inmerso Arión, destaca aquélla en la que éste es salvado por un delfín. "Delfín, amigo, con tu caricia de mar me enseñaste qué significa amar. Tierra cálida, enséñanos a nutrir, no a devastar, las almas que nos dan la felicidad."

Four libretti by the author of A Suitable Boy, written to accompany music by composer Alex Roth.Will include four calligraphic images by Vikram Seth.A Suitable Boy is a huge worldwide bestseller and has sold 420,000 copes in the UK since Bookscan started recording sales (1999).

La historia de Michael Holme, un joven violinista de gran talento que renunció a su prometedora carrera como concertista y al amor de su vida para recluirse en la soledad londinense como segundo violín en el Cuarteto Maggiore. El reencuentro fortuito con Julia,la pianista a la que amó y perdió diez años atrás, le llevará a descubrir que el pasado es otra caja de Pandora, y que nunca hay una segunda oportunidad.

Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike. Winner of the Bronze Award for Poetry at the 2002 Spoken Word Awards. 'Because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work, I decided to write a summer story involving mangoes and a river. By the time I had finished writing “The Crocodile and the Monkey” (in a cool room lent to me by a friend), another story and other animals had begun stirring in my mind. And so it went on until all ten of these beastly tales were born - or re-born. Of the ten tales told here, the first two come from India, the next two from China, the next two from Greece, and the next two from the Ukraine. The final two came directly from the Land of Gup. I hope you enjoy them and have a beastly time.' Vikram Seth.

Set in the present, with flashbacks, An Equal Music (the title is a phrase from a John Donne sermon) is a story of obsessive love narrated by Michael, a violinist from Rochdale in the north of England. He plays in a trio in Vienna in which Julia, half Scottish, half Austrian, is the pianist. He is much taken with her and she with him. But the trio splits up and the participants go their separate ways. Michael goes to London, where he joins a string quartet as second violinist. He feels the absence of Julia from his life keenly. One day, from the top of a double-decker bus, he catches a glimpse of her on the top of another double-decker bus. He tries to find her through her agent but fails. Michael's quartet gives a recital at the Wigmore Hall. Afterwards, Julia comes backstage. She tells him that she is contentedly married to an American banker and they have a five-year-old child. Michael persuades Julia to return with him to Vienna where the quartet is to play. The pianist who is to accompany the quartet falls ill and drops out. Michael persuades Julia to fill in and also to visit Venice with him after that: he had once promised to take her there. He discovers that Julia has become deaf, though her deafness comes and goes. This discovery explains much to Michael about the way she seems to have been distancing herself from him. He cannot resist reading a letter Julia has written to her husband, from which it becomes clear that Julia is never going to give herself, or more of herself, to Michael. This is a dark, obsessive love story about deafness, the perils of excessive love, the curious matter of nationality and how it affects lives and relationships.