For 10 points, name this incredibly long novel about Rupa Mehra's efforts to find a husband for her daughter Lata, written by Vikram Seth.
A woman in this novel callously orders two gold medals that her husband had earned as a student to be melted down and made into earrings. The table of contents in many editions of this novel summarizes each of its nineteen parts in rhyming couplets. The author of this novel inserted an episode from his father's life into a scene in which an employee at a Czech firm makes a pair of shoes from scratch in just three days. A forthcoming, similarly-titled sequel to this novel will focus on the sister-in-law of its cruel character Meenakshi in her old age. That woman in this novel rejects the Oxford-educated amateur poet Amit Chatterji, and defies her mutual attraction with the Muslim cricketer Kabir Durrani, in order to wed the nice Hindu boy Haresh Khanna. For 10 points, name this incredibly long novel about Rupa Mehra's efforts to find a husband for her daughter Lata, written by Vikram Seth.
A woman in this novel callously orders two gold medals that her husband had earned as a student to be melted down and made into earrings.
A Suitable Boy &lt;Long Fiction&gt;