503 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2005 by HarperCollins.
Two lives
by Vikram Seth
Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy -- tells the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century. Weaving together the strands of two extraordinary lives -- Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India who came to Berlin to study in the 1930s, and Helga Gerda Caro, the young German Jewish woman he befriended and later married -- Two Lives is both a history of a violent era seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of a complex, abiding love.
Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy -- tells the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century. Weaving together the strands of two extraordinary lives -- Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India who came to Berlin to study in the 1930s, and Helga Gerda Caro, the young German Jewish woman he befriended and later married -- Two Lives is both a history of a violent era seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of a complex, abiding love.
Subjects
- Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
- Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- Childhood and youth
- Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- Family
- Seth, Shanti Behari
- Caro, Helga Gerda
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- East Indians -- England -- London -- Biography
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- London (England) -- Biography