Books and Authors question: With A Suitable Boy as the reference work, which book–author pair is correctly matched?

The source-backed, question-specific record explains: A Suitable Boy is correctly associated with Vikram Seth. The work’s first publication is conventionally dated to 1993, and its original language is English. These three details—title, author, and language—form the decisive bibliographical combination required here. Vikram Seth, a major Indian literary figure, is also associated with An Equal Music; that companion title helps confirm the authorship independently rather than through guesswork. The distractor set (The White Tiger — Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter — Chinua Achebe; Things Fall Apart — Aravind Adiga) must therefore be tested as complete statements: one true fragment cannot make an entire option correct. A common examination trap is to confuse an author’s nationality with the language of composition, or a translation date with first publication. Another is to treat a well-known adaptation or later edition as the original work. Revision takeaway: remember the compact chain “A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth — English — 1993,” and connect it with An Equal Music for stronger recall. This evidence establishes the bibliographic relationship required in this Books and Authors item. A correct solution must preserve the exact title, author, publication context, language, award or comparison requested by the stem. Similar periods, genres or national traditions do not make two book–author pairs interchangeable. Option A gives A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth and satisfies the wording of the question. The remaining choices—The White Tiger — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter — Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart — Aravind Adiga—do not satisfy the complete requirement.