01966nam a2200289 a 450000100090000000800410000901000170005002000150006702000180008204000350010008200220013510000250015724500300018225000120021226000390022430000480026352009490031160000610126065100610132165000550138260000470143765000470148465000430153165000350157460000340160965100330164314095407050901s2005    nyuaf         000 0aeng d  a  2005052694  a067005836X  a9780670058365  aDLCcDLCdBAKERdC#PdBURdDLC00a828/.91409aB2221 aSeth, Vikram,d1952-10aTwo lives /cVikram Seth.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bHarperCollins,cc2005.  a503 p., [24] p. of plates :bill. ;c24 cm.  aShanti 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.10aSeth, Vikram,d1952-xHomes and hauntszEnglandzLondon. 0aLondon (England)xSocial life and customsy20th century. 0aAuthors, IndicxHomes and hauntszEnglandzLondon.10aSeth, Vikram,d1952-xChildhood and youth. 0aAuthors, Englishy20th centuryvBiography. 0aInterracial marriagezEnglandzLondon. 0aEast IndianszEnglandzLondon.10aSeth, Vikram,d1952-xFamily. 0aLondon (England)vBiography.