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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.
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Two Lives, Vikram Seth
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Two Lives
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Vikram Seth
- Publisher
- Harper
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0060599677
- ISBN13
- 9780060599676
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, History, Self-Help, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Love, Family, Suspense, Military History, Friendship, Military Fiction, Wars, Germany, World War II, Partnerships, England, Great Britain, India, Jews, Marriage, London, Third Reich (Nazi Germany), 1933-1945, Indian Literature
- Original title
- Two lives
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
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- 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.