Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves b

A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary.

Hugo Baumgartner, The Central Character Of Anita Desai'S Dazzling Novel, Is A Wandering Jew All His Life. From The Agonising Scenes Of His Childhood In Pre-War

Hugo Baumgartner is a firangi wherever he goes—too dark for Hitler’s Germany, too fair for India. Escaping the Nazi regime but losing his parents to it, the

From the author of Little Broken Things, a “race-to-the-finish family drama” (People) following a mother who must confront the dark summer that changed her