Baumgartner's Bombay - Softcover
Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn’t belong anywhere. He's a Berlin Jew who travelled to India to escape the Nazis and, after years spent the mercy of his past and his tumultuous adopted land, he has now retired to a seedy cat-filled apartment behind Bombay's Taj Hotel. But destiny has not finished with Baumgartner, in this haunting tale of the afflictions of exile.
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"A daring, colorful novel... Desai is a superb observer of the human race" (New York Times)
"One of the best English novelists writing in English" (Independent)
"Hugo Baumgartner, the central character of Anita Desai's dazzling novel, is a wandering Jew all his life. From the agonising 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, whatever he goes" (Daily Telegraph)
"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 colour" (The Times)
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"One of the best English novelists writing in English" (Independent)
"Hugo Baumgartner, the central character of Anita Desai's dazzling novel, is a wandering Jew all his life. From the agonising 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, whatever he goes" (Daily Telegraph)
"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 colour" (The Times)
'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1784873942
- ISBN 13 9781784873943
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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