Vikram Seth

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.

Two novels exploring the twin faces of love and madness, loss and regeneration.

An overview of India emphasizing its cultural aspects.

The Humble Administrator's Garden is a collection of poetry written by Vikram Seth. It is his first collection, published in 1985. The book has three sections, each containing works on a geography of Seth's life. The first section, titled Wutong, is inspired by his years of study and travel in China. Neem, the second section, has poems with themes from his native India, and the last is Live-Oak, with California-based topics. `[Source.]`

Stories and excerpts of novels from India since the country attained its independence in 1947. The subjects range from religious strife, to the assault on the senses of the many people one is surrounded by.

The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer. 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.They are accompanied by four pieces of calligraphy by the author.

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.

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

......contains poems written over the course of seven years by VS, the author of the bestselling novel in verse, The Golden Gate. The unusual feature of this collection is its variety: the poems range from love poems to those dealing wth nature or travel, from a section of epigrammatical four-liners to longer narratives in the voices of those caught up in war and public crisis. As in The Golden Gate, Seth conveys his feelings with directness and clarity, and with the memorable use of rhyme and metre.

Seth erzählt die Liebesgeschichte von seinem indischen Onkel Shanti, der in den 30er-jahren für seine Ausbildung nach Berlin geht und von den Nazis nach London verdrängt wird und seiner jüdischen Tante Henny, die die Tochter der Vermieterin von Shantis Zimmer in Berlin ist und der als einziger aus dem Freundeskreis die Flucht gelingt und die plötzlich in London an der Victoria Station steht.