Title: Two lives
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Biography, Homes and haunts, Family, East Indians, Social life and customs, Interracial marriage, Authors, English, Childhood and youth, Authors, Indic, Jews, Jews, German, English Authors, Indic Authors, German Jews, Authors, indic, Authors, english, Authors, biography, East indians, London (england), social life and customs, London (england), biography, Fiction, romance, historical, India, biography, Literary landmarks
Places: England, London, London (England)
People: Vikram Seth (1952-), Shanti Behari Seth, Helga Gerda Caro
Time periods: 20th century