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. seems to elude his destiny (NEW LEADER), Desai\'s capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion (NEW REPUBLIC) reach their full height.. . .
In this tale of a man who, like a figure in a Greek tragedy .
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.
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
