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Baumgartner's Bombay / Anita Desai.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3.D465 B38 2000
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LIBRA PR9499.3.D465 B38 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desai, Anita, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish refugees--Fiction.
- Jewish refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Jews.
- Jews--India--Mumbai--Fiction.
- India--Mumbai.
- Mumbai (India)--Fiction.
- Mumbai (India).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Mariner Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- Summary:
- Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.
- Notes:
- "A Mariner book."
- ISBN:
- 0618056807
- OCLC:
- 43845556
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