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Baumgartner's Bombay | Anita Desai

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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.

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Baumgartner's Bombay | Anita Desai

Playing catchup from yesterday- #junebookbugs #publishedinthe1980s

I picked up the Desai at the Bay Area Book Festival last year. And still haven't read it! I kinda like the cover. Can't say the same for Nice Work. Hate that cover. Maybe that's why I haven't actually read the book!

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