A “beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story” (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNERS BOMBAY is Anita Desais 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 […]
Anita Desai has long proved herself one of the most accomplished and admired chroniclers of middle-class India. Her 1999 novel,?ÿFasting, Feasting, is the tale of plain and lumpish Uma and the cherished, late-born Arun, daughter and son of strict and conventional parents. So united are her parents in Umas mind that she conflates their names. […]
“Eric is a newly minted historian just out of graduate school, unsure of his past choices and future options. With no clear direction, he follows his lover, Emily, when she travels to the Yucatan for her scientific research. But he ends up alone in this foreign place. And so he pursues his own private quest, […]
A spiritual quest takes Sophie and Matteo to India, where Matteo is drawn toward the Mother, a charismatic and mysterious guru. In an effort to reclaim her lover, Sophie embarks on her own journey for the truth about the Mothers past and finds that wisdom is found in the journey itself, not at its destination.