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Baumgartner's Bombay

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.

A daring, colorful novel... Desai is a superb observer of the human race

New York Times

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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9781784873943
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 191g
  • Price: £15.99
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