ISBN 9789382277316|Paperback|240 pages|Aleph Book Company
A searing, and at times darkly funny, study of mental illness, Jerry Pinto's first novel is also a deeply moving story about love and family relationships.
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In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim Bombay, Imelda Mendes, Em to her children, holds her family in thrall with her flamboyance, her compelling imagination, her unspoken love, her sometimes cruel candour. Through this, her husband, to whom she was once buttercup, her son, and daughter learn to cope with her mania and her frequent wish to die.
A searing, and at times darkly funny, study of mental illness, Jerry Pinto’s first novel is also a deeply moving story about love and family relationships.
Author:
Jerry Pinto
ISBN:
9789382277316
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
240
Year of Publishing:
2013
Publisher:
Aleph Book Company
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
Jerry Pinto lives and works in Mumbai. He has been a mathematics tutor, school librarian, journalist and columnist. He is now associated with MelJol, an NGO that works in the sphere of child rights. His published works include a book of poems, Asylum, and Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb, which won the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema in 2007. Em and the Big Hoom is his first novel.
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