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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 schovat popis
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Baumgartner´s Bombay, Anita Desai
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1998
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura),
- Condizioni del libro
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- Prezzo
- 7,49 €
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- Titolo
- Baumgartner´s Bombay
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Anita Desai
- Editore
- Random House UK Ltd
- Pubblicato
- 1998
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0099428520
- ISBN13
- 9780099428527
- Serie
- Descrizione
- 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 schovat popis