Baumgartner's Bombay

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.


Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/19/2000
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780618056804
ISBN10: 0618056807
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | War & Military