Review
From the book jacket: Shanti Behari Seth was born at the turn of
the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up
in India and was
sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin -- though he could not speak a
word of German -- to study medicine and dentistry. It was here, before he
migrated to Britain, that Shanti's path first crossed that of his future
wife.
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 Hitler's Germany for England just one month before war broke out, she
was met at Victoria...
Beyond the Book
Vikram Seth was born in India and educated there and in
England, California, and China. He has written acclaimed books in several
genres: verse novel,
The Golden Gate; travel book,
From Heaven
Lake; animal fables,
Beastly Tales; epic novel,
A Suitable Boy,
and a couple of books for children.
Partial bibliography:
Novels
The Golden Gate (1986)
A Suitable Boy (1993)
An Equal Music (1999)
Poetry
Mappings (1981)
Humble Administrator's Garden (1985)
All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
Beastly Tales (1991)
Three Chinese Poets (1992)
Non-Fiction
From...
