Vikram Seth

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

A Memoir

Two Lives

A Suitable Girl

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth’s novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata’s—and her mother’s—attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. At the same time, it is the story of India, newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis as a sixth of the world’s population faces its first great General Election and the chance to map its own destiny.

The author describes his travels in China and recounts his candid conversations with ordinary Chinese people

Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

From Heaven Lake

While touring Vienna and Venice with the Maggiore Quartet, Michael Holme and Julia McNicholl, renew their mutual passion for each other, and the music they shared years earlier.

An Equal Music

Vikram Seth's novel in verse,The Golden Gate, was hailed by Gore Vidal as "the Great California Novel" and by the New Republic as "a tour de force of the transcendence of the mere tour de force." Now he brings his romance with the English language, his effortless access to the deepest reservoirs of feeling, and his ability to light up the plain surfaces of everyday life to this stunning collection of poems. InAll You Who Sleep TonightSeth delves into the varieties of love -- love lost, remembered, and deferred. He evokes the unspeakable ironies of Auschwitz and the light-blasted streets of Hiroshima. He conducts the reader through Lion Grove in Suzhou, China, and across the Golden Gate Bridge on its fiftieth anniversary. Throughout, he displays the lyricism and attentiveness that distinguish the best poets of every era. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Poems

All You who Sleep Tonight

A Delicate And Moving Love Story, Both Intricate And Intimate, Rich With Music, Art, Humour And Emotion.

In This New Edition Of Mappings , Vikram Seth'S First Book Of Poems And One That Has Long Been Out Of Print, The Reader Is Introduced To Work Written In The Author'S Twenties, When He Was A Student In England And Later, California. More Immediate If Less Polished Than His Later Work, These Poems Enchant And Impress With Their Classical Learning, Wit, Perceptiveness And Lyricism All Facets Of Vikram Seth'S Now Celebrated Poetic Achievement.

Mappings

Sailing home with a prize of gold won in a contest, Arion faces death at the hands of the crew who covet his treasure.

Arion and the Dolphin

romanzo

Il ragazzo giusto

THE HUMBLE ADMINISTRATOR’S GARDEN

This captivating new book--the story of a century and of a love affair across a racial divide--from the author of "A Suitable Boy" is the memoir of the marriage of the author's great uncle and aunt.

The three Chinese poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Wang Wei with his quiet love of nature and Buddhist philosophy; Li Bai, the Taoist spirit, with his wild, flamboyant paeans to wine and the moon; and Du Fu, with his Confucian sense of sympathy with the suffering of others in a time of civil war and collapse. These three poets of a single generation, responding differently to their common times, crystallise the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a distance of twelve hundred years, move the reader as it is rare for even poetry to do.

Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu

Three Chinese Poets

Un buen partido

Kate Atkinson

Rose Tremain

Marina Lewycka

Nicholas Shakespeare

Ian Rankin

Hanif Kureishi

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Buckley

Marti Leimbach

Ox-Tales is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. 'Earth' features stories by Rose Tremain, Jonathan Coe, Marti Leimbach, Kate Atkinson, Ian Rankin, Marina Lewycka, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Buckley and Nicholas Shakespeare, and a poem by Vikram Seth. The idea behind Ox-Tales is to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity's work in project areas: agriculture in Earth, water projects in Water, conflict aid in Fire, and climate change in Air. The four books will play a central role in the first ever Oxfam Bookfest, a new annual event launching in July 2009. Created in partnership with Hay Festival, the program includes more than 300 events across the UK.

Ox-Tales:Earth

Love and Lust

The Poets Translated Here Wang Wei, Li Bai And Du Fu Are Among The Greatest Literary Figures Of China, Or Indeed The World. Responding Differently To Their Common Times, These Three Poets Of A Single Generation Crystallize The Immense Variety Of China And The Chinese Poetic Tradition And, Across A Distance Of Twelve Hundred Years, Move The Reader As It Is Rare For Every Poetry To Do.

'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind That I am forever waking in a lost country...' SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of summer, 'the hour of rust', when memory is haunted by loss and decay. But in the silence that follows, as the soul is cast adrift, there is also reconciliation with the transience of all things; the knowledge that there is a place, 'changeable, that will not betray'.

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