Baumgartners Bombay
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Description:
Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is a story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. Baumgartner's Bombay follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien, and then released to Bombay at war's end. Desai's "capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion" (New Republic) is in full evidence in this tale of a man who, "like a figure in a Greek tragedy ... seems to elude his destiny" (New Leader).
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