Two lives

Vikram Seth

first published 2005 HarperPerennial, 2006 paperback 503 pages

Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy -- tells the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century. Weaving together the strands of two extraordinary lives -- Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India who came to Berlin to study in the 1930s, and Helga Gerda Caro, the young German Jewish woman he befrie...

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Two lives paperback · 2006 · HarperPerennial · 503 pages · 9780060599676
Two lives edition · 2005 · McArthur & Company · 503 pages
Two lives edition · 2005 · Penguin Viking · 9780670058365
Two lives edition · 2005 · HarperCollins · 503 pages
Two lives edition · 2005 · Little Brown · 503 pages
Two lives edition · 2005 · Penguin Books India · 503 pages

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