Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita DesaiMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Do not expect to find too much of Bombay in the book. It is more about Baumgartner than about Bombay. Bombay is incidental as Baumgartner is forced to settle down in this city.
The book covers the holocaust, the partition, and the poverty in India at a very high level through the eyes of an holocaust escapee Hugo Baumgartner.
Not a read for Indians who are grounded in reality of India. Not to say that the book does not portray realism, it does, but the depth is missing.
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