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Baumgartner’s Bombay

Author: Anita Desai
SKU: 9780099428527

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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

  • Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 240 pages

ISBN : 9780099428527

Published : 2 Aug 2001

Author : Anita Desai

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Vintage Publishing

Size : 199 x 130 (mm)

Weight : 175g

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