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Baumgartner's Bombay
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Anita Desai
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
March 1, 1989
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780394572291
ISBN-10
0394572297
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Great Britain
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$18.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
An outsider in India, where he has fled from Nazi Germany, Hugo Baumgartner finds his painful past dredged up when he offers to help a wild young German hippie
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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
Editions
Hardcover
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (March 1, 1989)
9780394572291 | details & prices | List price $18.95
About: An outsider in India, where he has fled from Nazi Germany, Hugo Baumgartner finds his painful past dredged up when he offers to help a wild young German hippie
About: An outsider in India, where he has fled from Nazi Germany, Hugo Baumgartner finds his painful past dredged up when he offers to help a wild young German hippie
Paperback
from Houghton Mifflin (May 19, 2000)
9780618056804 | details & prices | 229 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (August 1, 1990); titled "Baumgartners Bombay"
9780140114744 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $11.95
About: Matteo and Sophie join the 1970s flight of young Europeans to India.
About: Matteo and Sophie join the 1970s flight of young Europeans to India.
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