by Vikram Seth · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433971081
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«Dos vidas» is the memoir by Vikram Seth, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (592 pages, in Spanish).
Vikram Seth reconstructs the lives of his great-uncle and great-aunt: Shanti, an Indian who studied dentistry in 1931 Berlin and lost an arm at Monte Cassino, and Henny, a German Jew who fled her country while her mother and sister died in Auschwitz. A family memoir that is also a chronicle of the twentieth century and a tribute to two survivors.
Volume 645 of the Panorama de narrativas collection, translated by Damià Alou. Originally published in English as «Two Lives» in 2005.
For readers of memoirs and biography, and for those who want to learn about twentieth-century Europe through two lives marked by war.
Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. The author of three novels and several collections of poetry, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri, a Sahitya Akademi Award, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the WH Smith Literary Award and the Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon, and he is regarded as the greatest Indian writer in English of all time.
