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Which Indian author wrote the epic novel 'A Suitable Boy', one of the longest single-volume novels ever published in English, set in post-independence India in the early 1950s?

Answer: Vikram Seth — Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (1993), at over 1,300 pages, is a sweeping family saga centred on a mother's search for a suitable husband for her daughter in newly independent India.

Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (1993), at over 1,300 pages, is a sweeping family saga centred on a mother's search for a suitable husband for her daughter in newly independent India.

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