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Baumgartner's Bombay
Anita Desai
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???A daring, colorful novel almost impossible to absorb in one reading.??? the New York times book review hugo baumgartner is a firanghi wherever he goes ??? too dark for Hitler???s Germany, too fair for India. Escaping the Nazi regime but losing his parents toit, the wandering Jew builds a life in India only to be interrupted by war, and then partition ??? and finally finds a home in multitudinous Bombay. We meet him as a kindly, rather hapless old man who spends his days making the rounds of local tea shops to scavenge for his many cats. Then, one day atthe caf?? du Paris, one of his regular haunts, he encounters a surly young German of the new order - a drug - crazed hippie who will change his lifeforever. Set in berlin, Venice, Calcutta - and of course Bombay - Baumgartner???s Bombay is the story of the twentieth century and a memorable portrait of Baumgartner, survivor, victim, and everyman.
Additional Info
| Author | Anita Desai |
| Publisher | Ebury Press |
| Language | English |
| Binding Type | Paper Back |
| Fiction | Modern Fiction |
| Indian Author | Yes |
| ISBN13 | 9788184000146 |
| SKU | BK 0012005 |
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