Baumgartner's Bombay
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hugo Baumgartner narrowly escapes the Nazis by fleeing to Calcutta. There he is imprisoned alongside dedicated Nazis by indifferent Anglo-Indian authorities. PW found the book ``occasionally irritating in its appropriation of history for its own purposes,'' but noted: ``Desai's artful control of her narrative's agenda results in a compelling fiction.''