Baumgartner’s Bombay
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Description
Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn’t belong anywhere. He’s a Berlin Jew who travelled to India to escape the Nazis and, after years spent the mercy of his past and his tumultuous adopted land, he has now retired to a seedy cat-filled apartment behind Bombay’s Taj Hotel. But destiny has not finished with Baumgartner, in this haunting tale of the afflictions of exile.
Additional information
Weight | 0.191 kg |
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Dimensions | 1.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 272 |
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Year Published | 2018-6-7 |
Imprint | |
Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 1784873942 |
About The Author | Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature. |
Review Quote | A daring, colorful novel… Desai is a superb observer of the human race |
Other text | One of the best English novelists writing in English |