Baumgartner's Bombay

Anita Desai (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2001
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-942852-7 (ISBN)

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A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary.

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

Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include many award-winning short story collections and novels, three of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, most recently Fasting, Feasting. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and lives in New York State.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.8.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 199 mm
Gewicht	175 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-942852-0 / 0099428520
ISBN-13	978-0-09-942852-7 / 9780099428527
Zustand	Neuware