Book review
The great California novel has been written, in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy’ —Gore Vidal

‘A new star in the literary firmament … it outshines in brilliance anything that I have seen in half-a-century of star-spotting … Seth has the stuff that Nobel laureates are made of’ —Khushwant Singh, Illustrated Weekly of India

‘A tour de force of rhyme and reasonableness. The Golden Gate doesn’t only compellingly advocate life’s pleasures, it stylishly contributes another one to them’ —Sunday Times, London

‘Seth is the most astute and sharp-tongued social critic to arrive on the scene since Jonathan Swift’ —India Today

‘A thing of anomalous beauty … Seth writes poetry as it has not been written for a century’ —Washington Post Book World


Press Review(s) for The Golden Gate

‘There is no one more deserving of the word “genius” than Vikram Seth. His book...is, in a word, brilliant.’
—Sunday
‘A new star in the literary firmament. …it outshines in brilliance anything that I have seen in half-a-century of star-spotting…. Seth has the stuff that Nobel laureates are made of.’
—Illustrated Weekly of India

‘Seth is the most astute and sharp-tongued social critic to arrive on the scene since Jonathan Swift.’
—India Today

‘Seth succeeds in wielding his rhyme-scheme fluently in every direction. He can be witty, frivolous, spoofy, mocking, lyrical and profoundly weighty with equal ease.’
—Indian Express

‘A tour de force of rhyme and reasonableness. The Golden Gate doesn’t only compellingly advocate life’s pleasures, it stylishly contributes another one to them.’
—Sunday Times, London

‘The Golden Gate is a technical triumph, unparalleled (I would hazard) in English. We may not have scorned the sonnet, but we shall hardly have thought it capable of this sustained sequentiality, speed, elegance, wit and depth of insight.’