Description

Across continents and decades, this memoir traces the intertwined lives of Shanti Behari Seth and Hennerle Gerda Caro, mapping how love, loss, and conviction shape the paths they take. With intimate, vividly observed storytelling, the narrative follows the choices that bind two people together while revealing the larger currents of family, culture, and history that press in from all sides. At its heart, the book explores identity and belonging, the quiet heroism of devotion, and the ways personal relationships can carry the weight of entire worlds. Written in Vikram Seth’s characteristic clarity and lyrical attention to detail, it offers a moving, expansive portrait of two lives whose meaning extends far beyond their own time.

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paperback

McArthur & Company

Published Jan 1, 2005

503 pages

ISBN: 9781552784969

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First Published

2005

Language

eng

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