Author: SETH, VIKRAM
Title: Two Lives
Description: New York : Harpercollins 2005. First Edition. Shanti Behari Seth. brought up in India. was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin--though he could not speak a word of German--to study medicine and dentistry. Helga Gerda Caro. known to everyone as 'Henny' was also born in 1908. in Berlin. to a Jewish family--cultured. patriotic. and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger. Henny’s first reaction was. 'Don’t take the black man!' But a friendship flowered. and when Henny fled Germany just one month before war broke out. she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti. Vikram Seth has woven together their story. which recounts the arrival into this childless couple’s lives of their great-nephew from India--the teenage Vikram. The result is a tapestry of India. the Third Reich and the Second World War. Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Israel and Palestine. postwar Germany and 1970s Britain. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 503 pages; Description: 503 p. 24 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Seth. Vikram (1952-) --Homes and haunts --England --London. Authors. English --20th century --Biography --East Indians --England --London. by Vikram Seth.ISBN: 0060599669. Weight in Kg appr.:

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