Two Lives: A Memoir
by Vikram Seth
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Author: Vikram SethEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-01
ISBN: 0060599677
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Reviews of Two Lives: A Memoir
Book Review: I give up
Summary: 2 Stars
I read A Suitable Boy and thought it was fantastic. I also read An Equal Music and thought that it was so bad that I couldn't believe it was by the same author. This book is a little less bad. First of all it is way too long. The letters go on and on and many are not particularly interesting. Where was the editor? Second he lunges off into several tangents about Germany, the middle east conflict and other topics which are approximately on the level of a high school student assigned to write an essay. There was a lot of editorializing that could have been put in, such as the fact that many of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust died because no one was willing to accept them and had no way to defend themsleves, instead he goes into a tirade about the Israeli oppression of the Palestinans that contains many factual errors. Third, after reading all these letters and hearing all these stories I still am left with a very unclear picture of his aunt, who seems to have led a very unintersting life. Fourth, I still don't understand why these two not very interesting people deserve a book. In short I give upon Seth.
Summary of Two Lives: A Memoir
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.
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