Best Selling Books by Vikram Seth

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

The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more. Against the magical backdrop of Venice and Vienna, the two lovers confront the truth about themselves and their love, about the music that both unites and divides them, and about a devastating secret that Julia must finally reveal. With poetic, evocative writing and a brilliant portrait of the international music scene, An Equal Music confirms Vikram Seth as one of the world''s finest and most enticing writers.

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.

The three T''ang dynasty poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Responding differently to their common times, Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu 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 even poetry to do.

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.

''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

The first collection of poems by the worldwide bestselling author of ''A Suitable Boy'' and ''The Golden Gate''.

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.

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.

Vikram Seth''s novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lela''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. Already a number one bestseller, this celebrated novel is now brought to life by the author himself in nearly six hours of listening pleasure.

A new series of small-format picture book about Nettie,who is no ordinary fairy.

Tells the story of four large extended families in 1950s India against the political and religious upheavals of the time.