Em and the Big Hoom

byJerry Pinto

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In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her children - holds her family in thrall with her flamboyance, her manic affection and her cruel candour. Her husband - to whom she was once 'Buttercup' - and her two children must bear her 'microweathers', her swings from laugh-out-loud joy to dark malevolence.

Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pinto's portrait of a woman finding it difficult to stay sane - and what happens to those who cannot help but love her - is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years.

The anger is a primal force, the sadness wild and raw. Against this, the jokes are hilarious, reckless, free falling ... This is a rare, brilliant book, one that is wonderfully different from any other that I have read coming out of India

Kiran Desai

About Jerry Pinto

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).
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241966525
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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