Two Lives

Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 014310408X

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Vikram Seth'S Captivating Book Is The Story Of A Century And Of A Love Affair Across A Racial Divide Shanti Behari Seth Was Born On The Eighth Day Of The Eighth Month In The Eighth Year Of The Twentieth Century; He Died Two Years Before Its Close. He Was Brought Up In India In The Late Years Of The Raj, And Was Sent By His Family In The 1930S To Berlin Though He Could Not Speak A Word Of German To Study Medicine And Dentistry. It Was Here, Before He Migrated To Britain, That Shanti'S Path First Crossed That Of His Future Wife. Henny Gerda Caro Was Also Born In 1908, In Berlin, To A Jewish Family, Cultured, Patriotic And Intensely German. When The Family Decided To Have Shanti As A Lodger, Henny S First Reaction Was, 'Don'T Take The Black Man!' But A Friendship Flowered, And When Henny Fled Hitler'S Germany For England, Just One Month Before The War Broke Out, She Was Met At Victoria Station By The Only Person She Knew In The Country: Shanti. Vikram Seth, Their Great-Nephew From India, Arrived In This Childless Couple'S Life As A Teenage Student. Now He Has Woven Together The Astonishing Story Of Shanti And Henny, And The Result Is An Extraordinary Tapestry Of India, The Third Reich And The Second World War, Auschwitz And The Holocaust, Israel And Palestine, Postwar Germany And 1970S Britain. Two Lives Is Both A History Of A Violent Country Seen Through The Eyes Of Two Survivors As Well As An Intimate Portrait Of Their Friendship, Marriage And Abiding Yet Complex Love. Part Biography, Part Memoir, Part Meditation On Our Times, This Is The True Tale Of Two Remarkable Lives A Masterful Telling From One Of Our Greatest Living Writers. Click Here To See Vikram Seth'S Microsite

Author : William Trevor
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141929804

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Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor 'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail 'Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reach the end . . . I wanted to start right again at the beginning' Guardian In Reading Turgenev an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels. My House in Umbria tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colourful pasts for her patients. Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred . . . 'One of the most beautiful and memorable things Trevor has written' Independent on Sunday Reading Turgenev was shortlisted for the Booker Prize Readers of Love and Summer and Felicia's Journey will adore Two Lives. It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd. William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in Penguin are: After Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault and Two Lives.

Author : Janet Malcolm
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Americans
ISBN : 9780522854367

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Two Lives is Janet Malcolm's stunning portrait of a legendary couple: Gertrude Stein, the modernist master, and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'. As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. 'The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties,' she writes. The portrait of their relationship that emerges is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat. Janet Malcolm is at her finest in this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism.

Author : Joanne Fleisher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1461177464

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Living Two Lives by Joanne Fleisher Pdf

A guide for married women awakening to their attraction to other women.

Author : Josie Silver
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593498279

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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver Pdf

Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December . . . “I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi Picoult Written with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life’s crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them. Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydia’s twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life—and perhaps even love—again. But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there’s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there’s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.

Author : Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher : Brigantine Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1938406702

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Two Lives by Reeve Lindbergh Pdf

Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of aviator-authors Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writes about the intersection of fame and privacy from her unique perspective¿as the spokesperson for the arguably most famous family of the twentieth century. In her new book, Lindbergh reflects on her own ¿Two Lives,¿ navigating her role as the public face of her family while, at the same time, leading a very quiet existence in rural Vermont. After devoting years to keeping separate her ¿Lindbergh life¿ and her everyday life on her farm, she now finds herself able to make peace with her two lives. Lindbergh takes us into the National Air and Space Museum and her own kitchen drawers with equal ease, discovering that the history-making items on display are, for her, like the memorabilia that most families keep in the attic. Two Lives reconciles the seemingly separate worlds of fame and privacy, even finding a ¿certain sweetness¿ when they intersect.

Author : Wilma Iggers,Georg Iggers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782387961

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Two Lives in Uncertain Times by Wilma Iggers,Georg Iggers Pdf

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Göttingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War. The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual biography but a history of changing conditions in America and Central Europe during turbulent times.

Author : William Blanchard Jerrold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600021752

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Two lives by William Blanchard Jerrold Pdf

Author : Vadim Melikh
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781587369667

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Two Lives by Vadim Melikh Pdf

"Two Lives" is a work of beautiful artistic imagery and inspirational discoveries-modern poetic storytelling in the best tradition of classicism, baroque literature, and romanticism. You will experience everyday life interlaced with grand events and deep realizations. Through tales of spellbinding adventures, you will encounter many colorful characters in a variety of exotic terrains and environments. Told with magical, poetic language, "Two Lives" is indeed a wonderful treat!

Author : Abbigail Rosewood
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787701717

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If I Had Two Lives by Abbigail Rosewood Pdf

A young woman's search for home and belonging This luminous debut follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life in the United States – and her necessary return to her homeland. As a child, isolated from the world in a secretive military encampment with her distant mother, she turns for affection to a sympathetic soldier and to the only other girl in the camp, forming two friendships that will shape the rest of her life. As a young adult in New York, cut off from her native country and haunted by the scars of her youth, she is still in search of a home. She falls in love with a married woman who is the image of her childhood friend, and follows strangers because they remind her of her soldier. When tragedy arises, she must return to Vietnam to confront the memories of her youth – and recover her identity. An inspiring meditation on love, loss, motherhood, and the presence of a past that never dies, If I Had Two Lives explores the ancient question: do we value the people in our lives because of who they are, or because of what we need them to be?

Author : Marie S. Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fugitives from justice
ISBN : 0615446884

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A Tale of Two Lives by Marie S. Walsh Pdf

Sent to prison at age 19 on a minor drug offense, a 10-to-20 year sentence, Susan Marie Lefevre chose to escape the life she'd been dealt and begin a new one. She spent the next thirty-two years living the life she'd always planned, all the while carrying the secret of her past. When her two lives collided, the results were played out in the courtrooms and news media.

Author : Patricia A. Reihl
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781452563039

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Two Lives One Lifetime by Patricia A. Reihl Pdf

Two Lives One Lifetime tells a story about generational addiction, written in a way to pique the interest of all generations. Two Lives One Lifetime chronicles the life of each individual family member and how addiction is the thread that weaves through their lives and intertwines each one. You will be drawn into how upbringing, successes, and failures shaped their lives, all written through the author’s perspective as she lived it. When the cycle of addictive devastation is finally broken, emerge with Pat into a new life of struggles, decisions, and gifts that change a life through a spirituality which passes all understanding.

Author : Abbas Kazerooni
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781743314838

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The Boy with Two Lives by Abbas Kazerooni Pdf

When ten-year-old Abbas arrives in England to start a new life - having just fled conscription into the Iranian army and survived almost three months alone in Istanbul, Turkey, waiting for a visa - little does he know that his troubles have only just begun. Abbas's cousin packs him off to boarding school, and infrequent phone calls are his only contact with his beloved mother in Iran. Things get worse when Abbas is threatened with deportation and forced to work through the nights during his school holidays to repay his 'debt', and worse still when, at the age of thirteen, he finds himself homeless. Abbas's extraordinary resilience in the face of overpowering odds makes this story based on true events from the internationally bestselling author of On Two Feet and Wings inspiring and unforgettable.

Author : James Boaden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086797214

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Man of Two Lives by James Boaden Pdf

Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226965295

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Two Lives and a Dream by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanaël—innocent, open to experience—born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lovely Morning," Nathanaël's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. "Anna, soror . . . ," the final tale, is an account of illicit passion in the baroque world of Naples. "An Obscure Man swarms with life. This intricately researched, imaginative, beautifully written tale of a young man's brief life in the mid-17th century is entirely engrossing."—Leona Weiss, San Francisco Chronicle "In these three stories, [Yourcenar] succeeds in making the essences of these past lives a part of the reader's future through the sheer intensity of their portrayal."—Margaret Ezell, Houston Chronicle