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'Profoundly moving . . . I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this.' -'Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto's devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary events of the season.Meet Imelda and Augustine, or-'as our young narrator calls his unusual parents-'Em and the Big Hoom. Most of the time, Em smokes endless beedis and sings her way through life. She is the sun around which everyone else orbits. But as enchanting and high-spirited as she can be, when Em's bipolar disorder seizes her she becomes monstrous, sometimes with calamitous consequences for herself and others. This accomplished debut is graceful and urgent, with a one-of-a-kind voice that will stay with readers long after the last page.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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).
Zusammenfassung
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.
Bericht
A rare, brilliant book, one that is wonderfully different from any other that I have read coming out of India Kiran Desai
