The phrase "a suitable boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is referring to a boy or young man who is appropriate or fitting for a particular situation, often in relation to relationships or marriage.
Example: "Her parents are eager to find her a suitable boy to marry, someone who shares their values and aspirations."
Alternatives: "an appropriate match" or "a fitting partner".
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).
He also broadcast on the World Service in Urdu, Hindi and English, and read novels including Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy and the Indian classics Shakuntala and Savitri.
Vikram Seth, (born June 20 , 1952 Calcutta, India), Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993).
From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, the notion that love does, indeed, know boundaries, even if it can, at times, overcome them, has been a literary staple through the ages.
From time to time, its length is challenged by later upstarts – most recently by Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – but Samuel Richardson's "History of a Young Lady" remains an extraordinary achievement.
He read his first four novels one summer in India – Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance – then came back to England and read Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.
Policies as likely to give Boris and Ken sleepless nights as a glass of Ovaltine, a hot bath, a bottle of Evening Primrose Oil and a copy of Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy.
He is known for his novels The Golden Gate (1986) and A Suitable Boy (1993).
He turned to prose, however, in A Suitable Boy, which depicts relations between four Indian families.
But there was something about A Suitable Boy that demanded more.
A colleague of mine once tried to read Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy".
