Baumgartner's Bombay
Author(s): Anita Desai
"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, wherever he goes' Daily Telegraph '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 cliches that praise may offer' London Review of Books"
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House of Canada
- : 0.141521
- : 26 March 1998
- : --- length: - '20' width: - '13' units: - Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Anita Desai
- : Paperback
- : 823/.914
- : 229