Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PR 9499.3 .S38 Z476 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 672873 |
PR 9499.3 .N3 R3 1977 The Ramayana : a shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic : (suggested by the Tamil version of Kamban) / | PR 9499.3 .N3 Z855 2007 R.K. Narayan / | PR 9499.3 .S38 S8335 2002 Vikram Seth's A suitable boy : a reader's guide / | PR 9499.3 .S38 Z476 2005 Two lives / | PR 9510.9 .G64 G6 1986 The goal : a process of ongoing improvement / | PR 9530 .T39 2011 Colony, nation, and globalisation : not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian literature / | PR 9540.9 .N37 A94 1997 Attar of roses and other stories of Pakistan / |
Shanti Behari Seth, brought up in India, was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin--though he could not speak a word of German--to study medicine and dentistry. 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 Germany just one month before war broke out, she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti. Vikram Seth has woven together their story, which recounts the arrival into this childless couple's lives of their great-nephew from India--the teenage Vikram. The result is a tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain.--From publisher description.
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