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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 schovat popis
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Baumgartner´s Bombay, Anita Desai
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
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- Titel
- Baumgartner´s Bombay
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Anita Desai
- Verlag
- Random House UK Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0099428520
- ISBN13
- 9780099428527
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Indien, Asiatische Belletristik, Indische Literatur, Bombay
- Beschreibung
- 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 schovat popis