by Vikram Seth · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497872133
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«Dues vides» is the memoir by Vikram Seth, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (528 pages, in Catalan).
The book reconstructs the true story of the author's great-uncle, Shanti, who studied dentistry in Berlin in the 1930s, and of Henny, a German Jewish woman who had to flee Germany and whose mother and sister died in Auschwitz. From their life together in London, Seth weaves family memory and biography to reflect on war, love and survival in the twentieth century.
Catalan translation by Albert Torrescasana Flotats; original work «Two Lives: A Memoir». The work won the Crossword Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Recommended for readers of memoirs and narrative nonfiction, with an interest in family stories, Nazi Germany and the Indian diaspora in Europe.
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.
