The Golden Gate

Author: Vikram Seth

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…..Read More

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