Baumgartner's Bombay

Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn't belong anywhere. He's a Berlin Jew who travelled to India to escape the Nazis and now has a seedy apartment behind Bombay's Taj Hotel. He lives for his cats, going out each day with a plastic bag to forage for them. A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary.