The Voltaire quotation "The secret of being a bore is to say everything," begins this novel that at the time of its 1993 publication was the longest novel ever written in English.
The Voltaire quotation "The secret of being a bore is to say everything," begins this novel that at the time of its 1993 publication was the longest novel ever written in English. The work is set both in Calcutta and the imaginary North Indian city of Brahmpur five years after India gained its independence, and centers around the relations between four families: the Khans, the Kapoors, the Chatterjis, and the Mehras. Rupa Mehra is in search of the title character for her unmarried daughter Lata in, --for 10 points-- what novel by Vikram Seth?
The Voltaire quotation "The secret of being a bore is to say everything," begins this novel that at the time of its 1993 publication was the longest novel ever written in English.
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