by Anita Desai · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420645766
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«El Bombay de Baumgartner» is the novel by Anita Desai, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Hugo Baumgartner, a young German Jew, leaves his country after the Nazis come to power. His journey through Europe ends in India, where he is interned as an enemy alien during the war. Released in Bombay, he witnesses a country in turmoil between nationalists and colonialists and lives as an eternal outsider in a land of contrasts.
The novel was originally published as Baumgartner's Bombay in 1989 and was nominated for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1993.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in exile, World War II, and postcolonial India.
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include Cry, the Peacock, Voices in the City (1963), Fire on the Mountain (1977) and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight (1978). She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature.
