Baumgartner's Bombay

Baumgartner's Bombay

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Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 230
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0099428520

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Hugo Baumgartner, the central character of Anita Desai’s dazzling novel, is a wandering Jew all his life. From the agonizing scenes of his childhood in pre-war Berlin, through his spell in business in Calcutta and then Bombay, he simply does not belong. Too dark for Hitler’s society, he is too fair for India; he remains a firanghi, a foreigner, wherever he goes.

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One of the best English novelists writing in English
–INDEPENDENT

Beautifully observed… recovers a lost slice of history in its portrayal of a wounded survivor
-OBSERVER

Cleverly constructed, and full of sharp perceptions about human nature under the skin, whatever the color
-THE TIMES

Anita Desai writes beautifully, employing an opulent vocabulary to great effect in her physical descriptions… The achievement of a superior writer
-LITERARY REVIEW

A book that puts to shame all the little epithets and pert clichés that praise may offer.
-LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS