false 50363 17 <p> Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller <i>A Suitable Boy</i> -- tells the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century. Weaving together the strands of two extraordinary lives -- Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India who came to Berlin to study in the 1930s, and Helga Gerda Caro, the young German Jewish woman he befriended and later married -- <i>Two Lives</i> is both a history of a violent era seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of a complex, abiding love. </p> 2382055 book 2005 Two Lives: A Memoir total:397|5:63|4:145|3:126|2:55|1:8| 397 1391 650 58 3 2 false false Tue Oct 02 19:19:04 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 19:23:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 04:05:37 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 11:38:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jan 22 14:29:24 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 14:30:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 13:14:58 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 13:23:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:57 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:57 -0800 2009 "I want [Shanti and Henny] complexly remembered," Seth writes. "I want to mark them true." Seth meets this goal. Two Lives, a biography and record of pre- and postwar life, is at heart a story about two individuals that fate and urgency__more than romantic love, perhaps__thrust t...

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