Two Lives

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Two Lives

Author : Vikram Seth

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

512

Pages

9780349117980

ISBN-13

0349117980

ISBN-10

Abacus

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

40 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

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 Seths 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 Seco 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 Seths 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.