Baumgartner's Bombay
  • Published:
    Sep-1990
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    20th Century Contemporary
  • Pages:
    240
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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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    • First Edition
    • Sep-1990
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140114742
    • ISBN13: 9780140114744
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    • Sep-1990
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140131760
    • ISBN13: 9780140131765
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    • Apr-1998
    • Random House (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0749386746
    • ISBN13: 9780749386740
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    • May-2000
    • Mariner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0618056807
    • ISBN13: 9780618056804
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    • Jan-2010
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099428520
    • ISBN13: 9780099428527
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    • Jun-2018
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1784873942
    • ISBN13: 9781784873943
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    • Jan-1988
    • William Heinemann (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0434186368
    • ISBN13: 9780434186365
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    • Mar-1989
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394572297
    • ISBN13: 9780394572291
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    • Oct-2012
    • Vintage Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Nov-2012
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 8184003471
    • ISBN13: 9788184003475
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    • Nov-2012
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1448104521
    • ISBN13: 9781448104529



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