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Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780618056804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-10-31
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1448104521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0099428520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Clichés That Praise May Offer' London Review Of Books
Author: Mamta Mantri
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 152752552X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mumbai? Bombay? How do we explain this city and ourselves within it? How do the city and the city dweller together allow for representations of urban life to arise in literature and the fine arts? This book is an understanding of Mumbai, both as an architectural and literary space, through the lens of spatial criticism and the technique of flânerie. As an icon of experiences, Mumbai is felt through the simultaneous acts of walking, observing, remembering and articulating. In analyzing four novels, namely Baumgartner’s Bombay, Ravan and Eddie, Shantaram and Baluta, the book claims that the characters and their authors offer an alternative vision of the city, as they also construct a transient place for themselves. This act of flânerie is an act of transgression as it turns the outside into the inside, changing public space into private space. As the characters serve to disrupt meaning, uncover hidden histories and expose power relations involved in the representation of place, they actualize many possibilities and meanings. Using the novel as a literary device, the authors have told stories, not only of the protagonist-flâneur, but also of people around them; sometimes in detail, sometimes in passing. In contesting, claiming and owning the lives, the stories, and the city, the humane aspect is never forgotten.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-10-31
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1448104556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House India
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 8184004095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sophie and Matteo are young and in love, sharing a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois Italian upbringing. Naturally, like so many other young Westerners in the sixties and seventies, they go to India. But the realities of life in an ashram ignite their differences; Sophie wants to be a tourist and go to Goa and eat shrimp, which Matteo scorns, seeking the ‘real’ India. Pragmatic Sophie is disillusioned by the hardships they encounter, while her husband, who yearns for spiritual fulfillment, sees only the purity of ascetic life, leading him to Mother, a charismatic guru. Trying to reclaim an ailing Matteo, Sophie embarks on a new journey in search for a different truth; that of Mother’s mysterious past. Soon, she finds that the immortal has a history of her own; born in Cairo, she was once Laila, a dancer who toured the world before coming to Bombay to search for ‘divine love’. What each of the three people discover, on their individual quests, is at its heart that ancient truth: that wisdom is found in the journey itself. A stirring, profound exploration of emotional exile, of sacred and profane loves, Journey to Ithaca is a masterful novel.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House India
Published: 2012-10-29
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 8184003471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 wandering Jew builds a life in India only to be interrupted by war, and then partition—and finally finds a home in multitudinous Bombay. We meet him as a kindly, rather hapless old man who spends his days making the rounds of local teashops to scavenge for his many cats. Then, one day at the Café du Paris, one of his regular haunts, he encounters a surly young German of the new order—a drug-crazed hippie who will change his life forever. Set in Berlin, Venice, Calcutta—and of course Bombay—Baumgartner’s Bombay is the story of the twentieth century and a memorable portrait of Baumgartner, survivor, victim, everyman.
Author: Kajali Sharma
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9788170172833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House India
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 8184003293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this sensitive portrayal of human nature, Anita Desai, one of India’s foremost writers, paints an intimate portrait of lives impacted by the quest for identity and purpose. Deven, a Hindi lecturer in small-town Mirpore, lives a humdrum existence. A chance to interview Nur—India’s greatest living Urdu poet—offers him an escape from his dreary life. But the Nur he meets is an enfeebled man, surrounded by clashing wives and preying sycophants. Deven’s decision to be the custodian of Nur’s verse gives birth to an unusual alliance between the two. Stimulating and thought provoking, In Custody is a brilliant parable lamenting the gradual corrosion of culture and tradition in the face of modernity, and a dazzling study of the complexity of human relationships.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780749386795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai’s stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen.
