description: 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.
language: English
title: Two Lives Signed Edition
titlecomplete: Two Lives Signed Edition
characters: Henny Gerda Caro, Shanti Behari Seth, Vikram Seth
genres: Biography, Indian Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, India, Holocaust, Biography Memoir, Germany, History, World War II
ratings_count: 3618
places: Berlin, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Autobiography/Memoir, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Crossword Book Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Little Brown & Co