TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seth,Vikram
TI  - Two lives
SN  - 0060599677 (pbk.)
U1  - 828.91409 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Seth, Vikram,
KW  - Authors, Indic
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Interracial marriage
KW  - East Indians
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Social life and customs
N2  - Shanti Behari Seth, brought up in India, was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin--though he could not speak a word of German--to study medicine and dentistry. Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as "Henny" was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family--cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny's first reaction was, "Don't take the black man!" But a friendship flowered, and when Henny fled Germany just one month before war broke out, she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti. Vikram Seth has woven together their story, which recounts the arrival into this childless couple's lives of their great-nephew from India--the teenage Vikram. The result is a tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain.--From publisher description
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