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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/06/2018
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ISBN: 9781784873943
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £8.99
Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn’t belong anywhere. He's a Berlin Jew who travelled to India to escape the Nazis and, after years spent the mercy of his past and his tumultuous adopted land, he has now retired to a seedy cat-filled apartment behind Bombay's Taj Hotel. But destiny has not finished with Baumgartner, in this haunting tale of the afflictions of exile.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/06/2018
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ISBN: 9781784873943
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"A daring, colorful novel... Desai is a superb observer of the human race"
New York Times
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"One of the best English novelists writing in English"
Independent
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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, whatever he goes"
Daily Telegraph
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"Beautifully observed... Recovers a lost slice of history in its portrayal of a wounded survivor"
Observer
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"Cleverly constructed, and full of sharp perceptions about human nature under the skin, whatever the colour"
The Times
