Two Lives | 
pickThis is a double biography of the authors aunt and uncle.. which also tells a bit of Seth's life.. it's peppered with excerpts from letters and interviews etc.. I couldn't put it down.
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pickThis is a double biography of the authors aunt and uncle.. which also tells a bit of Seth's life.. it's peppered with excerpts from letters and interviews etc.. I couldn't put it down.
Today‘s author spotlight: Vikram Seth! The 67-year-old was born in Calcutta, India. He studied at Oxford & Stanford. He was commissioned by the English National Opera to write a Greek myth-based libretto, which was first performed in 1994. He received a Q9.4 mil advance for his novel “Two Lives”, far more than the 6a8,000 for “A Suitable Boy”. He lives in poet George Herbert‘s former home. He is gay & an activist. #AuthorPotpourri #TheMoreYouKnow
This is a is certainly a memoir I love. I sent my brother the copy I originally read as soon as I finished it (even though he had asked me to stop sending him books. I guess my packages were taking over his home. I have never had to tell anyone anything even remotely similar ) and then bought it in hard cover. #memoirlove #17booklove
I've got just 100 pages left in this memoir about friendship, immigration, an Indian student, and a German Jewish woman he befriended and later married. It's the history of the war years (WWII) told through the intimate details of one family's tale. Loved the first section, found that the middle section dragged a bit, and finding the last section engaging.
