Baumgartner's Bombay
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Jun '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review
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.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.
A daring, colorful novel... Desai is a superb observer of the human race * New York Times *
One of the best English novelists writing in English * Independent *
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, whatever he goes * Daily Telegraph *
Beautifully observed... Recovers a lost slice of history in its portrayal of a wounded survivor * Observer *
Cleverly constructed, and full of sharp perceptions about human nature under the skin, whatever the colour * The Times *
ISBN: 9781784873943
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight: 191g
272 pages