02227nam a2200337 a 4500 14095407 050901s2005 nyuaf 000 0aeng d 2005052694 067005836X 9780670058365 DLC DLC BAKER C#P BUR DLC 828/.91409 B 22 Seth, Vikram, 1952- Two lives / Vikram Seth. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2005. 503 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Seth, Vikram, 1952- Homes and haunts England London. London (England) Social life and customs 20th century. Authors, Indic Homes and haunts England London. Seth, Vikram, 1952- Childhood and youth. Authors, English 20th century Biography. Interracial marriage England London. East Indians England London. Seth, Vikram, 1952- Family. London (England) Biography. 2772 2772 0 0 ddc 0 0 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2009-07-23 1345.00 0 828.91409 SET 3010015927 2009-07-23 1 2009-07-23 BK