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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 . . . 'Profoundly moving. I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this.' Amitav Ghosh 'Hilarious, reckless, brilliant.' Kiran Desai 'A near-perfect account of a psychologically troubled mother. Touching and funny.' Irish Times 'Delightful. Pinto is quite a genius with dialogue.' Guardian
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Em and the Big Hoom, Jerry Pinto
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Titel
- Em and the Big Hoom
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Jerry Pinto
- Verlag
- Penguin UK
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0241966515
- ISBN13
- 9780241966518
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Familie, Psychische Gesundheit, Indien, Indische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 4,2 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 . . . 'Profoundly moving. I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this.' Amitav Ghosh 'Hilarious, reckless, brilliant.' Kiran Desai 'A near-perfect account of a psychologically troubled mother. Touching and funny.' Irish Times 'Delightful. Pinto is quite a genius with dialogue.' Guardian