Em and the Big Hoom
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.
She was always Em to us. There may have been a time when we called her something ordinary like Mummy, or Ma, but I don''t remember. She was Em, and our father, sometimes, was the Big Hoom.
In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her childr...
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.
She was always Em to us. There may have been a time when we called her something ordinary like Mummy, or Ma, but I don''t remember. She was Em, and our father, sometimes, was the Big Hoom.
In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her childr...
