New Releases by Vikram Seth

Widely loved author of the worldwide bestselling novels, A SUITABLE BOY and AN EQUAL MUSIC, Vikram Seth is also a highly acclaimed poet with a substantial body of work. Here for the first time, in one volume, readers can appreciate the breadth of his eloquence and invention in his collected poetic works. Including MAPPINGS, THE HUMBLE ADMINISTRATOR''S GARDEN, ALL YOU WHO SLEEP TONIGHT, THREE CHINESE POETS, BEASTLY TALES, ARION AND THE DOLPHIN and SUMMER REQUIEM, this is a collection to savour and treasure.

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.

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.

A second-time-around romance between Michael, a violinist and Julia, a pianist. He runs into her on a London bus and learns she is married to a banker and has a son. They resume their love, but drama lies ahead as Julia is going deaf. By the author of A Suitable Boy.

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

Novel, based on social theme.

An extraordinary account of the political upheavals afflicting the newly independent India,taken from the bestselling A SUITABLE BOY.

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

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.

Arion and the Dolphin is an opera in nine scenes for professionals and community performers. The libretto is by Vikram Seth and the music is composed by Alec Roth. Recounted with Seth s inimitable charm, it is the story of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in Corinth. Thrown overboard on his return from a musical contest in Sicily, Arion is saved and befriended by a dolphin.

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.

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

This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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