Anita Desai

Baumgartner's Bombay

A novel that follows the life of Hugo Baumgartner, a German Jew who escapes the Holocaust to seek refuge in India. The narrative traces his journey from affluent Berlin to Calcutta, where he is interned as a hostile alien during World War II, and finally to Bombay, where he spends his remaining years in isolation

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