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Two Lives Book Summary. A heartrending new book - the story of a marriage and the story of two lives - from the author of the Media Reviews. The Washington Post Admirers of Seth's prose, among whom I certainly count myself, will find much in here Reader Reviews. Vikram Seth is genius in. Two Lives by Vikram Seth. 3, ratings, average rating, reviews. Two Lives Quotes Showing of 3. “Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, .  · Two Lives: A Memoir by Vikram Seth The Two Lives are those of the author's great uncle Shanti and great aunt Henny, who lived in Hendon when he knew them, but had met in Berlin before the Second World War. She was a Jewish native of Berlin/5.

Find Two Lives by Seth, Vikram at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. A trunk full of letters helped Vikram Seth to reconstruct the story of his great-aunt Henny and his great-uncle Shanti. Two Lives is a fitting memorial of an extraordinary couple, says Blake Morrison. 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 s BritainFrom publisher description.

Two Lives: A Memoir () by international bestselling author Vikram Seth tells the story of Seth’s aunt and uncle and their letters to each other, and how their relationship survived WWII. The book has been generally well received, particularly by critics. It was nominated for both the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography/Memoir, and the Crossword Book Award for Nonfiction. Relying on interviews, private letters and over ten years of research, Two Lives is Vikram Seth's masterful tribute to his Aunt and Uncle, and takes readers on a remarkable ride from s India, to Berlin during the Third Reach, all the way up to present-day England. Vikram Seth 's second non-fiction work, Two Lives, is the story of a century and of a love affair across an ethnic divide. As the name suggests, it is a story of two extraordinary lives, that of his great uncle, Shanti Behari Seth, and of his German Jewish great aunt, Hennerle Gerda Caro. Two Lives is divided into five parts, beginning with the teenage author going to live with his uncle and aunt in England for higher studies at the Tonbridge School.