by Vikram Seth · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349117980
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«Two Lives» is Vikram Seth's memoir, published by Abacus in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Vikram Seth tells the story of his great-uncle Shanti, who studied medicine in Berlin in the 1930s, and his aunt Henny, from the German Jewish family that took him in. Both fled to Britain; Shanti lost an arm at Monte Cassino and after the war they married and lived in London. Their lives intersect with the twentieth century, from the Raj to the Holocaust.
The work was originally published in 2005 as «Two Lives: A Memoir», won the Crossword Book Award in 2006, and this Abacus edition dates from 2006.
For readers of memoirs and twentieth-century history, especially those interested in India, Nazi Germany and postwar Britain.
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.
