"The heartrending story of a two people, a marriage, and a century
from the author of A Suitable Boy. . . . "[A] thoughtful, evocative,
moving book."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
Two Lives is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and
the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine,
postwar Germany and 1970s Britain. Part biography, part memoir, part
meditation on our times, here is a masterful work from one of our
greatest living writers.
In this magnificent, tender story, Vikram Seth offers both a history of
a violent century as well as an intimate portrait of an unlikely
friendship, marriage, and abiding yet complex love: that of his beloved
uncle, Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India, and his aunt, Helga
Gerda Caro, a German Jew who was forced to flee her homeland by the
Nazis.
With Two Lives, Seth has written "a truly heroic tale which
demonstrates just how much can sometimes be achieved against monstrous
odds." (Washington Times)