New Releases by Vikram Seth

Some buildings hold more than weight. Structural engineer Marcus Vane finds the error on a Tuesday. One decimal place. A shear connection rated at a tenth of the load it needs to carry, in the east wing of a seventy-two-story building that people will eventually stand inside of. He has eleven days before the steel is cut. He says nothing. Five years later, the east wing of the Aerie collapses. The Geometry of Guilt follows Sarah Vane... archivist, structural investigator, Marcus''s sister... as she reconstructs not just what failed in the building, but what failed in the man she thought she knew completely. Working from her brother''s field notebooks, a forty-two-page supplementary finding buried in a city archive, and the testimony of people who were present when the calculation was signed off, Sarah begins to understand that the error was not the only thing that was known and not reported. Someone else knew. And unlike Marcus, they made a choice. Precise, atmospheric, and morally relentless, The Geometry of Guilt is a psychological thriller about institutional silence, the architecture of professional loyalty, and what it means to carry a decision inside you until it becomes load-bearing. Set against the backdrop of a building site where every number has consequences, it asks the question that haunts every cover-up: at what point does silence become its own kind of act? For readers of Slow Horses, The Firm, The Thursday Murder Club, and The Silent Patient. This is a work of fiction. All characters, organisations, and events are entirely imaginary. Any resemblance to real persons or actual events is coincidental.

Wederwaardigheden van de leden van een moslimgezin en drie hindoe-families in het pas onafhankelijke en diep getroubleerde India van 1952.

UM ROMANCE PARA OS AMANTES DA CULTURA INDIANA Através da saga de uma mãe em busca de um bom partido para a filha, Vikram Seth recria a vida na Índia pós-colonial, um país que tenta reunir diferentes religiões e línguas sob uma identidade nacional. Neste primeiro volume, somos apresentados a quatro famílias que ilustram a sociedade indiana da época: os elitistas Kapoor, os excêntricos e intelectuais Chatterji, os tradicionais Khan e os urbanos Mehra. É neste cenário que Lata precisa escolher seu futuro marido. Os pretendentes se apresentam, mas somente um deles se casará com a jovem – por amor ou por persuasão materna.

''Summer Requiem'' is a memorial to the radiant days of summers past. From the strewing of pollen and flowers in bloom, the dance of warmth across young skin, fruits swollen and sweet, to the bitterness of fading light, skeletal trees and the cold silence left behind, Vikram Seth traces the ebb and flow of all that lives and all that will perish

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Drawing on a range of personal experience and literary influences, and mixing translation and original creation, The Rivered Earth consists of four libretti written to accompany music by Alec Roth – together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer and a musician. Entitled ''Songs in Time of War'', ''Shared Ground'', ''The Traveller'' and ''Seven Elements'', they take us all over the world - from Chinese and Indian poetry to the beauty and quietness of the Salisbury house where the poet George Herbert lived and died. Spanning centuries of creativity and humanity, these poems pulse with life, energy and inspired brilliance.

Of The Ten Fables Told Here, Two Come From India, Two From China, Two From Greece, Two From The Ukraine, And Two, As The Author Puts It, Came Directly To Me From The Land Of Gup. This Is A Book That Displays The Astonishing Versatility Of The Poet Who Gave Us The Golden Gate And All You Who Sleep Tonight. The Flair And Delight Of Beastly Tales From Here And There Is Proof That Vikram Seth Can Try On The Most Unusual Clothes Without In The Least Losing His Unique Poetic Identity.

Una década antes de alcanzar la celebridad con su novela Un buen partido, Vikram Seth pasó dos años en China, estudiando en la universidad de Nanjing. en 1981, aprovechando las vacaciones de verano, el escritor indio decidió hacer el camino de regreso a N

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

Après Un garçon convenable, best-seller mondial traduit en plus de trente langues, Vikram Seth, l''un des plus grands écrivains indiens contemporains, nous offre une fresque bouleversante : le récit poignant d''une rencontre entre deux destins, deux univers - l''Inde et l''Occident. Shanti Behari Seth est indien, Henny Gerda Caro est juive et allemande. Leurs destins se croisent quand Shanti, jeune étudiant, prend pension chez les Caro dans le Berlin des années trente. " Ne prenons pas le noir " avait pourtant averti celle qui deviendrait sa femme. Les nazis ont déjà entrepris de persécuter les étrangers et les Juifs. Henny et Shanti se retrouvent à Londres après la guerre. Lui, bras droit arraché à Monte Cassino ; elle, mère et sœur disparues dans les camps. Deux anonymes, deux vies exemplaires, deux vies tout simplement. Vikram Seth, leur petit-neveu, les rencontrera lui-même dans les années soixante-dix lorsque, jeune étudiant, il viendra loger chez eux à Londres. Et c''est en plongeant dans leur histoire après leur mort, il y a peu, qu''il deviendra le fils qu''ils n''ont jamais eu.

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.

This tale of a beautiful relationship combines prose and poetry to tell the story of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in ancient Greece. Thrown overboard on his return from a musical contest, Arion is saved and befriended by a dolphin in this retelling of a popular adventure. Este relato de una hermosa relación combina la prosa con el verso para contar la historia de Arión, un joven músico en la corte de Periandro en la antigua Grecia. Arrojado por la borda a su regreso de un concurso de música, Arión es salvado por un delfín que se convierte en su amigo en esta adaptación de una aventura popular.

Een violist in een kwartet ontmoet opnieuw de verloren liefde van zijn leven in een Londense bus en probeert haar weer voor zich te winnen.

Written in verse, this was Vikram Seth''s first novel. Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of California''s silicon valley, it is the story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.