Two Lives: A Memoir

Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth—author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boymdash;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 befriended and later married—Two Lives is both a history of a violent era seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of a complex, abiding love.