| ID | 016823 |
| Call Number | 823.914/SET |
| Title Proper | Two lives |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Seth, Vikram |
| Publication | New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. |
| Description | 503p Greyish Blue Spine |
| Note | 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. |
| Standard Number | 9780739469552 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.175(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 823.914 |
| Key Words | IBDP ; Indian writing in English ; Seth, Shanti Behari, 1918-1998 ; Seth, Vikram, 1952- ; Jews - Biography ; Interracial marriage ; Childhood and youth - Literature |