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 · 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. 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 www.doorway.ru 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. Two Lives is both a history of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors as well as an intimate portrait of their friendship, marriage and abiding yet complex love. Part biography, part memoir, part meditation on our times, this is the true tale of two remarkable lives."--BOOK JACKET.

The understatement and distance that Seth places between the lives of the 'two live' (aunt and uncle) is the strength of this book. It technically is a story of 3 people as Vikram Seth as narrator begins the journey of putting together the biographies of 2 uncovenetional people who live through a bleak period is histroy and whose lives are touched by history. Vikram Seth was born in He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales. Two such lives are the subject of a new book by Vikram Seth, the acclaimed novelist whose books include, "An Equal Music" and "Golden Gate." Seth's new book is part memoir, part biography and part.

Two Lives is both a history of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors as well as an intimate portrait of their friendship, marriage and abiding yet complex love. Part biography, part memoir, part meditation on our times, this is the true tale of two remarkable lives."--BOOK JACKET. A heartrending new book -- the story of a marriageand the story of two lives -- from the author of theinternational bestselling novel A Suitable BoyShanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. 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.