Titre : | Baumgartners Bombay |
Auteurs : | Anita Desai, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | München : Paul List Verlag, 1989 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-3-471-77335-2 |
Format : | 276 pages / Illustré / 21x13cm |
Langues: | Allemand |
Langues originales: | Anglais |
Résumé : |
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.
Baumgartner’s Bombay is the tenth novel written by Indian writer Anita Desai. It tells the story of a German Jew named Hugo Baumgartner who flees the Holocaust to Bombay. Published by Random House in 1988, the book covers a diverse geological and cultural landscape, featuring Berlin, Venice, Bombay, and Calcutta. Desai is a Man Booker Prize-nominated author for her earlier novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting. Although written in English, Desai sprinkles Indian languages along with German and Hebrew into the narrative through quotations, nursery rhymes, and dialog, complementing the transnational setting of the novel. The story begins with Hugo’s murder in Bombay as an old man and quickly retreats to both the distant and recent past. In Bombay, Hugo spent his time wandering the streets and looking for table scraps at area tea shops and restaurants. The cooks at his frequent stops knew to leave him bags of scrap food to take to the many cats in his impoverished home behind the Taj Hotel. They fondly called him “The Madman of the Cats.” Hugo’s best friend was an Indian businessman named Chimanlal who cared for Hugo genuinely and served as his patron. Chimanlal and Hugo bought a racehorse together and went to the track where they won several trophies. |
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