{"product_id":"baumgartners-bombay-9780618056804-new","title":"Baumgartner's Bombay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story\" (Chaim Potok)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaumgartner'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\" (\u003cem\u003eNew Leader\u003c\/em\u003e), Desai's \"capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion\" (\u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e) reach their full height.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MARINER BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51566199341346,"sku":"9780618056804-new","price":15.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780618056804.jpg?v=1777011487","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/baumgartners-bombay-9780618056804-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}