Two Lives (Signed First Edition)

Seth, Vikram

ISBN 10: 0060599669 / ISBN 13: 9780060599669

Published by Harper, New York, 2005

About this Item

New York: Harper [2005]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, his name only without any further writing. New, in dust jacket. A pristine unread copy. Very fine/very fine in all respects. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Smoke free shop. Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two Lives (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Harper, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060599669
• ISBN 13: 9780060599669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions

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Synopsis

"The heartrending story of a two people, a marriage, and a century from the author of A Suitable Boy. . . . “[A] thoughtful, evocative, moving book.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

Two Lives is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain. Part biography, part memoir, part meditation on our times, here is a masterful work from one of our greatest living writers.

In this magnificent, tender story, Vikram Seth offers both a history of a violent century as well as an intimate portrait of an unlikely friendship, marriage, and abiding yet complex love: that of his beloved uncle, Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India, and his aunt, Helga Gerda Caro, a German Jew who was forced to flee her homeland by the Nazis. 

With Two Lives, Seth has written "a truly heroic tale which demonstrates just how much can sometimes be achieved against monstrous odds." (Washington Times)

About the Author

Vikram Seth has written acclaimed books in several genres: verse novel, The Golden Gate; travel book, From Heaven Lake; animal fables, Beastly Tales; epic fiction, A Suitable Boy. His most recent novel, An Equal Music, was published in 1999. He lives in England and India.