Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Baumgartner's Bombay
Author(s): Desai Anita
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Barcode: 9780618056804
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2000
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction