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El Bombay de Baumgartner
by Anita Desai · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · 368 pages
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Pages: 368 pagesAuthor: Anita DesaiPublisher: Alianza Editorial SaFormat: tapa blandaLanguage: es-ESRelease date: 1/1/2004ISBN: ISBN 9788420645766
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Synopsis of El Bombay de Baumgartner
Hugo Baumgartner, un joven judío alemán, se ve obligado a huir de su tierra natal tras el ascenso de los nazis al poder. Su viaje lo lleva a través de Venecia hasta la India, donde espera encontrar refugio, pero termina siendo encarcelado como un extranjero hostil durante la guerra. Al ser liberado en Bombay, se encuentra en un país convulso, atrapado entre nacionalistas y colonialistas, viviendo como un eterno extranjero en una tierra de contrastes dramáticos. Esta aclamada novela de Anita Desai explora las profundas heridas emocionales de la guerra y el exilio. A través de una prosa rica y evocadora, la autora presenta la historia de un superviviente que busca estabilidad en un mundo en constante cambio, ofreciendo una visión conmovedora sobre la identidad y la pertenencia en la India poscolonial.
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Anita Desai
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.
Born in 1937Since 1963103 titles published63 writing
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