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...book of travels through Tibet, a libretto and the monumental novel A Suitable Boy. This fall, Seth releases his latest foray into a new genre: a memoir titled Two Lives, which tells the true story of how his Indian granduncle Shanti fell in love with and married a Jewish-German woman after World War II. The book will weave together history, race and love, mixing poignant family biography with personal memoir, all with the author's inimitable style. Expect Seth to master yet another method...
...what expense do we try to keep it? If not for the constant change and development of cultures and languages, France would never have developed its identity, an identity it is fighting to retain in part with laws to preserve its language. As an American of Czech, Scottish, British, German and Native American heritage, I have found it is unrealistic to become attached to just one of these defined groups, so I have cultivated a larger sense of community tied to all of them. I don't feel less a person for it. I'm saddened by the loss...
...verve and the story itself convinced me there was something there, the relationship between two remarkable people." They made a strange couple. Short and energetic, Shanti loved talk and his evening whisky. Henny, tall and elegant, was quieter but irrepressibly kind. They never had children and argued frequently, in German, yet they remained devoted. Henny quit her well-paid office job to focus on Shanti's needs. He underwrote her passion for clothes and took her on yearly vacations to Switzerland (they never returned to Germany). Fortunately, there is more to Two Lives than two lives. Henny and Shanti neatly...
...sign advertising Bono Vox of O'Connell Street, a hearing-aid store in Dublin. Not until later did he learn that the phrase meant "good voice" in cockeyed Latin, but he had long since dropped the Vox. Bono -- say it Bon-no, to sound like the German city and not like the name of Cher's ex-husband -- came up with the name for David Evans. "The edge is the border between something and nothing," he announced. "I am not a particularly edgy person," the Edge elaborates, "so it is funny." Now, then...
AUSTIN, TEXAS Name: Saveur Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival Dates: The first weekend each April Todd English, Diana Kennedy and Tyler Florence were this year's featured chefs. Also on the table: a showcase of Texas culinary talent and a cowboy breakfast with Czech and German touches from the hill country...