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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 Berlin, Through His Spell In Business In Calcutta And Then Bombay, He Simply Does Not Belong. Too Dark For Hitler’S Society He Is Too Fair For India; He Remains A Firanghi, A Foreigner, Wherever He Goes’ Daily Telegraph ‘Anita Desai Writes Beautifully, Employing An Opulent Vocabulary To Great Effect In Her Physical Descriptions.The Achievement Of A Superior Writer’ Literary Review’A Book That Puts To Shame All The Little Epithets And Pert Clich?s That Praise May Offer’ London Review Of Books
