<p> Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller <i>A Suitable Boy</i> -- 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 -- <i>Two Lives</i> 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. </p>