num_pages: 308
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Golden Gate
titlecomplete: The Golden Gate
genres: Fiction, American, Indian Literature, The United States Of America, Poetry, India, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4643
places: California, San Francisco, California, Palo Alto, California
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: California Book Award
category: Californiana (Gold), awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Faber & Faber