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Item Details
Title:
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BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY
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By: |
Anita Desai |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0099428520 |
ISBN 13: |
9780099428527 |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
2 August, 2001 |
Pages: |
240 |
Description: |
A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary. |
Synopsis: |
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 |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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