02237nam 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. 00015927 Seth, Vikram, 1952- Homes and haunts England London. Seth, Vikram, 1952- Childhood and youth. Seth, Vikram, 1952- Family. London (England) Social life and customs 20th century. London (England) Biography. Authors, Indic Homes and haunts England London. Authors, English 20th century Biography. Interracial marriage England London. East Indians England London. Ayesha Abed Library General Shelf. 2772 2772 0 0 ddc 0 828_914090000000000_SET 0 2546 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2009-07-23 1345.00 0 828.91409 SET 3010015927 2009-07-23 1 2009-07-23 BK