num_pages: 503
description: Two Lives is the story of a century and of a love affair across a racial divide. It tells of the extraordinary lives of Vikram Seth's great-uncle Shanti, brought up in India and sent to Berlin in the 1930s to study, and of his great-aunt Henny, whose German-Jewish family took Shanti as a lodger. What follows is an astonishing tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, post-war Germany and modern Britain.
language: English
title: Two Lives
titlecomplete: Two Lives
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: Abacus