Vikram Seth
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Two Lives: A Memoir
Vikram Seth
A heartrending new book—the story of a marriage and the story of two lives—from the author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy
Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up in India in the apparently vigorous but dying Raj and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin—though he could not speak a word of German—to study medicine and dentistry. It was here, before he migrated to Britain, that Shanti’s path first…
Vikram Seth
This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts.
