Author(s): Vikram Seth

Novel | Poetry

Written in verse, this was Vikram Seth's first novel. Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of California's silicon valley, it is the story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.

Review:
 " At once a bittersweet love story, a wickedly funny novel of manners and an unsentimental meditation on mortality and the nuclear abyss. Always witty--and still profound--the book paints a truthful picture of our dreadful, comic times." --"Vanity Fair"
" A splendid achievement, equally convincing in its exhilaration and its sadness." --"The New York Times"
" The great California novel has been written in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy." --Gore Vidal

Author Biography: Vikram Seth was trained as an economist. He has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet, several books of poems, and two novels (not in verse), A Suitable Boy and An Equal Music.