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Em And The Big Hoom By Jerry Pinto (Paperback, 2015)
Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years 'Profoundly moving I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this' Amitav Ghosh 'Hilarious reckless brilliant' Kiran Desai In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid Her husband - Augustine the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure her 'microweathers' swings from searing joy to brooding malevolence And here is the story of how this family of four came to be Of how Imelda was courted by Augustine - 'Hello Buttercup' - and of how with the passage of time and the arrival of her children she slowly turned into Em loving and loathing a world
terrified of her extravagant excesses 'A near-perfect account of a psychologically troubled mother Touching and funny' Irish Times 'Delightful Pinto is quite a genius with dialogue' Guardian Jerry Pinto has been a mathematics tutor school librarian and journalist and is now associated with MelJol an NGO that works in the sphere of child rights He has edited several anthologies including most recently an anthology on his native city Mumbai
terrified of her extravagant excesses 'A near-perfect account of a psychologically troubled mother Touching and funny' Irish Times 'Delightful Pinto is quite a genius with dialogue' Guardian Jerry Pinto has been a mathematics tutor school librarian and journalist and is now associated with MelJol an NGO that works in the sphere of child rights He has edited several anthologies including most recently an anthology on his native city Mumbai
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