"Two Lives"

Vikram Seth's latest novel "Two Lives" is finally out, and is apparently once more different from his others. Can anyone actually believe that Indigo does not have it yet? It's been out for two weeks!

Here's a link to his latest interview in the Guardian. Reading it, I wonder whether Vikram Seth the writer could have been any other way than the way he is now. It sometimes feels that he lives each of his characters so intensely that, had he had a regular family of his own, he would have deprived his characters of an important part of his empathy.

As if being such a fine translator of people's experiences and emotions compels you to a life just on the periphery of those stories rather than allowing you to become a part of them.