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What are Vikram Seth’s most notable works?

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Vikram Seth’s most lauded works are the travel book From Heaven Lake (1983), the verse novel The Golden Gate (1986), and the epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993), which is one of the world’s longest novels. The Golden Gate is based on Charles Johnston’s translation of Aleksandr Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin (1833).

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In what style does Vikram Seth write?

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Vikram Seth has written primarily poetry. He published his first volume of poetry, Mappings, in 1980. He has also published novels, travelogues, and a family memoir. His most famous travelogue, From Heaven Lake, was published in 1983 and recounts his experience hitchhiking from China to India via Tibet. In 1986 Seth published the verse novel The Golden Gate, and in 2005 he published the autobiography Two Lives.

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