- Published: 31 October 2012
- ISBN: 9781448104529
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Baumgartner's Bombay
- Published: 31 October 2012
- ISBN: 9781448104529
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
A daring, colorful novel... Desai is a superb observer of the human race
New York Times
A book that puts to shame all the little epithets and pert cliches that praise may offer
London Review of Books
Anita Desai writes beautifully, employing an opulent vocabulary to great effect in her physical descriptions... The achievement of a superior writer
Literary Review
Beautifully observed... Recovers a lost slice of history in its portrayal of a wounded survivor
Observer
Cleverly constructed, and full of sharp perceptions about human nature under the skin, whatever the colour
The Times
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, whatever he goes
Daily Telegraph
One of the best English novelists writing in English
Independent