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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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Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her novels
Fasting Feasting, Clear Light of Day and In
Custody were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters as well as a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge.
She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T. and divides her time
between India, Massachusetts and England.
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