Em And The Big Hoom - Format B - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241966515 ISBN 13: 9780241966518

Verlag: Simon, 2015

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jerry Pinto began writing at the age of three. His first published work was Jerand's Jovial Journal, in collaboration with his sister Andrea Pinto. This magnificent work of staggering genius, as it was described by the authors, has been lost to posterity. It is rumoured darkly, where dark rumours rumble, that Indiana Jones and Lara Croftare in a race to retrieve it. His other works include A Bear for Felicia (Puffin), Mowgli and the Bear (Disney) and When Crows are White (Scholastic).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Simon
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0241966515
• ISBN 13: 9780241966518
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar