Two Lives: A Memoir

This captivating new book--the story of a century and of a love affair across a racial divide--from the author of "A Suitable Boy" is the memoir of the marriage of the author's great uncle and aunt.

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 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.