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100	1		_aSeth, Vikram, _d1952-
245	1	0	_aTwo lives / _cVikram Seth.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins, _cc2005.
300			_a503 p., [24] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
520			_aShanti 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.
526			_aschool _lSAC
600	1	0	_aSeth, Vikram, _d1952- _xHomes and haunts _zEngland _zLondon.
600	1	0	_aSeth, Vikram, _d1952- _xChildhood and youth.
600	1	0	_aSeth, Vikram, _d1952- _xFamily.
650		0	_aAuthors, Indic _xHomes and haunts _zEngland _zLondon.
650		0	_aAuthors, English _y20th century _vBiography.
650		0	_aInterracial marriage _zEngland _zLondon.
650		0	_aEast Indians _zEngland _zLondon.
651		0	_aLondon (England) _xSocial life and customs _y20th century.
651		0	_aLondon (England) _vBiography.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information
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