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    <body><![CDATA[great book, and one I almost missed reading because it had been on my bookshelf a little too long. Anita Desai is a gifted writer, far, far better than her over-hyped daughter. Part of the book is set in Bombay and Calcutta, between WWII and the 1980s, and part of it in pre-war Germany. Apart from t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10365100">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't care what Barry says--I found it a useful read, when faced with existential crisis.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a sad story of a hopelessly displaced person.  hugo baumgartner flees nazi germany only to be imprisoned for being a german in still-colonial india. tragically ironic but beautifully written, desai tells a story of staggering loss and the perils of nationalism, but also one of friendship, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41134735">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Too slow-going. The author (a German-Indian non-Jew) did not do a good job at all of portraying the personal tragedy of the Holocaust. Also, I found myself not caring about any of the characters, since they all were sort of lifeless (although that was sort of the point, I guess). What I did like was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45141619">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely loved this book. If you're at all interested in the Holocaust, trauma studies, or post-colonialism, you should read this.]]></body>
    
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