Baumgartner’s Bombay（ISBN=） 英文原版

A “beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story”
(Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER’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” (NEW LEADER), Desai’s “capacious
intelligence, her unsentimental compassion” (NEW REPUBLIC) reach
their full height.

Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her novels
Fasting Feasting, Clear Light of Day and In
Custody were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters as well as a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge.
She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T. and divides her time
between India, Massachusetts and England.