by Vikram Seth · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788830421578
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«Due vite» is a biography written by Vikram Seth, published by Longanesi in hardcover (527 pages, in Italian).
Vikram Seth reconstructs the life of his great-uncle Shanti, an Indian sent to Berlin in the 1930s to study medicine, and that of his wife Henny, a German Jew who fled Germany before the war. The author himself, a great-nephew arriving from India, weaves these memories together with Nazism, the Holocaust, Israel and postwar Europe.
The Italian edition, published in 2006, is number 814 of the La Gaja scienza collection; ISBN 9788830421578.
A book for those who enjoy biographies, family memoirs and twentieth-century European history.
Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. The author of three novels and several collections of poetry, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri, a Sahitya Akademi Award, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the WH Smith Literary Award and the Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon, and he is regarded as the greatest Indian writer in English of all time.
