{"product_id":"9780316727761","title":"Vikram Seth - Two Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Vikram Seth. Themes include Seth, Vikram, -- 1952-  -- Family, Interracial marriage, Jews, German -- England -- London -- Biography, East Indians -- England -- London -- Biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShanti 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58559836979574,"sku":null,"price":6.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780316727761.jpg?v=1787924177","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780316727761","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}