Is Mira Nair’s BBC adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy the epic we need right now?
Probably, yes. Back when I had time to read for many hours a day I devoured Seth’s 1,300-page, 1993 epic of love, class, politics, and just about everything else, all of it set against post-partition India’s roiling transition from colonial raj to independent nation(s) (much of the action takes place in Calcutta).
A Suitable Boy is basically a gripping, multi-generational soap opera and I am very much looking forward to placing myself in the hands of director Mira Nair, and getting lost in its Tolstoyan sweep! The six-part series debuts on July 26th, but until then, here’s the trailer:
Jonny Diamond
Jonny Diamond is the Editor in Chief of Literary Hub. He lives in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains with his wife and two sons, and is currently writing a cultural history of the axe for W.W. Norton. @JonnyDiamond, JonnyDiamond.me
