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      Baumgartner's Bombay

      by Anita Desai
      Published
      Sep 1990
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      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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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Sep 1990 Penguin ISBN13 9780140131765 ISBN10 0140131760
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      Apr 1998 Random House (UK) ISBN13 9780749386740 ISBN10 0749386746
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      May 2000 Mariner ISBN13 9780618056804 ISBN10 0618056807
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      Jan 1988 William Heinemann (UK) ISBN13 9780434186365 ISBN10 0434186368
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      Mar 1989 Knopf ISBN13 9780394572291 ISBN10 0394572297
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