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Baumgartner's Bombay

Baumgartner's Bombay

Desai, Anita

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General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 0618056807
ISBN13: 9780618056804
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 19 2000
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story (Chaim Potok)

Baumgartner's Bombay is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end. In this tale of a man who, like a figure in a Greek tragedy . . . seems to elude his destiny (New Leader), Desai's capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion (New Republic) reach their full height.

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