Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai

Baumgartner's Bombay

Anita Desai

272 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Hugo Baumgartner is a firangi wherever he goes— too dark for Hitler's Germany, too fair for India. Escaping the Nazi regime but losing his parents to it, the wandering Jew builds a life in India only to be interrupted by war, and then partition— a...

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