Modern classic Vikram Seth is a true citizen of the world. Born in India, he studied at Oxford, as well as at Stanford University in California, where, instead of a dissertation on economics, he wrote his first novel, “Golden Gate,” about American yuppies - and it was a novel in verse; moreover, written from beginning to end in Onegin's stanza. And after many years of work, “The Worthy Groom” was released - “an epic, multi-figured, like the novels of Dickens or Trollope, and vast, like India itself” (San Francisco Chronicle), a record-breaking one in many respects: the longest novel in the history of English literature, which managed to publish in one volume; translations into three dozen languages and a worldwide circulation of 26 million. Set in the fictional city of Brahmpur on the banks of the Ganges, shortly after Indian independence; Mrs. Rupa Mera, having married her eldest daughter Savita, is trying to find a worthy groom for her youngest daughter, student Lata - and she, as a modern girl, has her own opinion on this matter and is inclined to listen not to her elders, but to her heart. Now she has to choose from three suitors - fellow student Kabir, the famous poet Amit and Haresh, a rising star in the shoe business... In 2020, BBC Channel One released a mini-series based on the novel, known in Russian as “A Suitable Groom” ; The director was Mira Nair (“Vanity Fair,” “New York, I Love You”), and the script was written by the renowned Andrew Davies (“Les Miserables,” “War and Peace,” “Brideshead Revisited,” “Northanger Abbey,” “ Mind and Feelings”).