{"product_id":"baumgartners-bombay-isbn-9780618056804","title":"Baumgartner's Bombay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story\" (Chaim Potok)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaumgartner's Bombay is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end. In this tale of a man who, \"like a figure in a Greek tragedy . . . seems to elude his destiny\" (\u003cem\u003eNew Leader\u003c\/em\u003e), Desai's \"capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion\" (\u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e) reach their full height.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"A subject new...to English fiction—the experience of Jewish refugees in India.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully written, richly textured . . . [a] haunting story.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChaim Potok\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A triumph.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Desai's artful control of her narrative's agenda results in a compelling fiction.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Desai merits strong praise for her compellingly realistic descriptions of Indian life.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A daring and colorful novel from a superb observer of the human race\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890175963365,"sku":"NP9780618056804","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780618056804.jpg?v=1730232695","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/baumgartners-bombay-isbn-9780618056804","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}