Two lives
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, Indic -- England -- London. -- Homes and haunts.
East Indians -- England -- London.
Interracial marriage -- England -- London.
London (England) -- Biography.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- Childhood and youth.
Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- England -- London. -- Homes and haunts
Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- Family.
Authors, Indic -- England -- London. -- Homes and haunts.
East Indians -- England -- London.
Interracial marriage -- England -- London.
London (England) -- Biography.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- Childhood and youth.
Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- England -- London. -- Homes and haunts
Seth, Vikram, -- 1952- -- Family.
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503 pages, [24] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
UPC
978006599669
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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.
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All Ages.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Seth, V. (2005). Two lives . HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Seth, Vikram, 1952-. 2005. Two Lives. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Seth, Vikram, 1952-. Two Lives HarperCollins, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Seth, Vikram. Two Lives HarperCollins, 2005.
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