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Two Lives by Vikram Seth (Hardcover )

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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 read more...
 
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TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But a friendship developed read more...
 
Arion And The Dolphin

Arion And The Dolphin by Vikram Seth (Paperback 2005)

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Recounted with Seth's inimitable charm, it is the story of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in Corinth. Thrown overboard on his return from a musical contest in Sicily, Arion is saved and befriended by a dolphin.
 
The Golden Gate

The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (Paperback 2005)

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The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. I
 
The Humble Administrator's Garden

The Humble Administrator's Garden by Vikram Seth (Paperback 2005)

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In this collection of poems, Vikram Seth trully reflects upon three seemingly different cultures of India, China and California.
 
From Heaven Lake

From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth (Paperback 2000)

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Hitch-hiking, walking, slogging through rivers and across leech-ridden hills, Vikram Seth travelled through Sinkiang and Tibet to Nepal: from Heaven Lake to the Himalayas. By breaking away from the reliable routes of organised travel, he transformed his journey into an unusual and intriguing read more...
 
Three Chinese Poets

Three Chinese Poets by Vikram Seth (Hardcover 2005)

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The poets translated here—Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu—are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Responding differently to their common times, these three poets of a single generation crystallize the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a read more...
 
Mappings

Mappings by Vikram Seth (Hardcover 2005)

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In this new edition of Mappings , Vikram Seth's first book of poems, the reader is introduced to work written in the author's twenties, when he was a student in England and later, California. More immediate if less polished than his later work, these poems enchant and impress with their classical read more...
 
An Equal Music

An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (Paperback 2000)

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When an English quartet, the Maggiore, undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven's, violinist Michael Holme is overwhelmed by memories of mastering the piece as a student in Vienna. That's where he also met Julia McNicholl, a pianist whose beauty was as mesmerizing as her musical genius, and whom read more...
 
Two Lives

Two Lives by Vikram Seth (Hardcover 2008)

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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 late years of the Raj, and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin—though he could not speak a word of German—to read more...
 

 


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