num_pages: 240
description: 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. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end. In this tale of a man who, "like a figure in a Greek tragedy . . . seems to elude his destiny" (NEW LEADER), Desai's "capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion" (NEW REPUBLIC) reach their full height.
language: English
title: Baumgartner's Bombay
titlecomplete: Baumgartner's Bombay
genres: 20th Century, Germany, Historical Fiction, Post Colonial, Novels, Asian Literature, Indian Literature, Literature, India, Fiction
ratings_count: 917
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera
publisher: Harper Perennial