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Em and the Big Hoom

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101637854
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Em and the Big Hoom written by Jerry Pinto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastatingly original debut novel from a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. “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 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.

Em and the Big Hoom

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241966523
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Em and the Big Hoom written by Jerry Pinto and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. In Em and the Big Hoom, the son begins to unravel the story of his parents: the mother he loves and hates in the same moment and the unusual man who courted, married and protected her - as much from herself as from the world. 'It is utterly persuasive and deeply affecting: stylistically adventurous it is never self-indulgent; although suffused with pain it shows no trace of self-pity. Parts of it are extremely funny, and its pages are filled with endearing and eccentric characters' Amitav Ghosh 'Pinto chases the elusive portrait of a mother who simply said of herself that she was mad. As I read this novel, that also portrays a very tender marriage and the life of a Goan family in Bombay, it drowned me. I mean that in the best way. It plunged me into a world so vivid and capricious, that when I finished, I found something had shifted and changed within myself. This is a world of magnified and dark emotion. 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 'A child's-eye view of madness and sorrow, full of love, pain, and, unaccountably, much wild comedy. ne of the very best books to come out of India in a long, long time' Salman Rushdie Jerry Pinto has been a mathematics tutor, school librarian and journalist and is now associated with MelJol, an NGO that works in the sphere of child rights. He has edited several anthologies including, most recently, an anthology on his native city, Mumbai.

A Book of Light

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386050205
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Light written by Jerry Pinto and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, 'Em and the Big Hoom', which drew upon his experience of living with a mother who was bipolar. It touched thousands of readers, among them many who had similar experiences-of living with someone with a mental illness or infirmity. Some of these readers shared their stories with him, and agreed to share them with the world. 'A Book of Light' collects these harrowing yet moving, even empowering, stories-about the terror and majesty of love; the bleakness and unexpected grace of life; the fragility and immense strength of the human mind.

Cobalt Blue

Author : Sachin Kundalkar
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620971763
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Cobalt Blue written by Sachin Kundalkar and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a film from Netflix India, this memorable novel confronts issues of sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and their family’s lodger Recently adapted into a stunning Netflix film, Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity. Brother and sister Tanay and Anuja both fall in love with the same man, an artist lodging in their family home in Pune, in western India. He seems like the perfect tenant, ready with the rent and happy to listen to their mother’s musings on the imminent collapse of Indian culture. But he’s also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends, no history, and no plans for the future. When he runs away with Anuja, he overturns the family’s lives. Translated from the Marathi by acclaimed novelist and critic Jerry Pinto, Sachin Kundalkar’s elegantly wrought and exquisitely spare novel explores the disruption of a traditional family by a free-spirited stranger in order to examine a generation in transition. Intimate, moving, sensual, and wry in its portrait of young love, Cobalt Blue is a frank and lyrical exploration of gay life in India that recalls the work of Edmund White and Alan Hollinghurst—of people living in emotional isolation, attempting to find long-term intimacy in relationships that until recently were barely conceivable to them.

Bombay, Meri Jaan

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143029663
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Bombay, Meri Jaan written by Jerry Pinto and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When King Charles Ii Of England Married Princess Catherine De Braganza Of Portugal In 1661, He Received As Part Of His Dowry The Isles Of Bom Bahia, The Good Bay. Reclaimed From The Sea, These Would Become The Modern City Of Bombay. A Marriage Of Affluence And Abject Poverty, Where A Grey Concrete Jungle Is The Backdrop To A Heady Potpourri Of Ethnic, Linguistic And Religious Subcultures, Bombay, Renamed Mumbai After The Goddess Mumbadevi, Defies Definition. Bombay, Meri Jaan, Comprising Poems And Prose Pieces By Some Of The Biggest Names In Literature, In Addition To Cartoons, Photographs, A Song And A Bombay Duck Recipe, Tries To Capture The Spirit Of This Great Metropolis. Salman Rushdie, Pico Iyer, Dilip Chitre, Saadat Hasan Manto, V.S. Naipaul, Khushwant Singh And Busybee, Among Others, Write About Aspects Of The City: The High-Rise Apartments And The Slums; Camaraderie And Isolation In The Crowded Chawls; Bhelpuri On The Beach And Cricket In The Gully; The Women'S Compartment Of A Local Train; Encounter Cops Who Battle The Underworld; The Jazz Culture Of The Sixties; The Monsoon Floods; The Shiv Sena; The Cinema Halls; The Sea. Vibrant, Engaging And Provocative, This Is An Anthology As Rich And Varied As The City It Celebrates.

Murder in Mahim

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789388326094
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Mahim written by Jerry Pinto and published by . This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man is found dead in the toilet of Matunga Road railway station, his stomach ripped open. Retired journalist Peter Fernandes joins the investigation with his friend, Inspector Jende, and discovers a world of secret desire, greed, and despair - a world that he fears his son may be part of. Driven as much by fear and empathy as by curiosity about men who seek men. Peter tried to track down the killer, with some help from the flamboyant Leslie Siqueria, his guide to an alternate universe. --

Fiela's Child

Author : Dalene Matthee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226510832
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Fiela's Child written by Dalene Matthee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him. "Everything a novel can be: convincing, thought-provoking, upsetting, unforgettable, and timeless."—Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman "Fiela's Child is a parade that broadens and humanizes our understanding of the conflicts still affecting South Africa today."—Francis Levy, New York Times Book Review "A powerful creation of time and place with dark threads of destiny and oppression and its roots in the almost Biblical soil of a storyteller's art."—Christopher Wordsworth, The Guardian "The characters in the novel live and breathe; and the landscape is so brightly painted that the trees, birds, elephants, and rivers of old South Africa are characters themselves. A book not to miss."—Kirkus Reviews

Sepia Leaves

Author : Amandeep Sandhu
Publisher : India Research Press
ISBN 13 : 9788183860079
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Sepia Leaves written by Amandeep Sandhu and published by India Research Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Appu pieces together his fragmented past, one man's memory becomes the landscape of an entire nation's socio-political history. A touching portrait of the reconciliation between love and guilt, this novel parallels the state of a nation with the fall of a nuclear family, offering a poignant exploration of self-discovery and hope.

Literatures of Madness

Author : Elizabeth J. Donaldson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319926667
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Literatures of Madness written by Elizabeth J. Donaldson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health. The collection contains essays on canonical authors and lesser known and sometimes forgotten writers, including Sylvia Plath, Louisa May Alcott, Hannah Weiner, Mary Jane Ward, Michelle Cliff, Lee Maracle, Joanne Greenberg, Ann Bannon, Jerry Pinto, Persimmon Blackbridge, and others. The volume addresses the under-representation of madness and psychiatric disability in the field of disability studies, which traditionally focuses on physical disability, and explores the controversies and the common ground among disability studies, anti-psychiatric discourses, mad studies, graphic medicine, and health/medical humanities.

Prozac Diary

Author : Lauren Slater
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679462791
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Prozac Diary written by Lauren Slater and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life." Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she describes what it's like to spend most of your life feeling crazy--and then to wake up one day and find yourself in the strange state of feeling well. And then to face the challenge of creating a whole new life. Once inhibited, Slater becomes spontaneous. Once terrified of maintaining a job, she accepts a teaching position and ultimately earns several degrees in psychology. Once lonely, she finds love with a man who adores her. Slater is wonderfully thoughtful and articulate about all of these changes, and also about the downside of taking Prozac: such matters as dependency, sexual dysfunction, and Prozac "poop-out." "The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and Slater's remarkable gifts as a writer are present here in sentences that are like elegant darts, hitting at the center of the deepest human feelings. Prozac Diary is a wonderfully written report from inside a decade on Prozac, and an original writer's acute observations on the challenges of living modern life.

Reflected in Water

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143100812
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Reflected in Water written by Jerry Pinto and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described Variously As The Kashi Of The South, The Rome Of The East And The Pearl Of The Orient, Goa, Located On The West Coast Of India, Is Renowned For Its Scenic Charm, Its Beaches, And The Architectural Splendour Of Its Temples, Churches And Old Houses. With Its Sun-Sand-Surf Leitmotif It Is Also The Land Of The Lotus-Eater, A Tourist'S Paradise Of Fun And Frolic, Raves And Revelry. But Goa Is More Than Just The World'S Favourite Holiday Destination. Its Unique History, Shaped By The Various Dynasties That Ruled It&Mdash;The Rashtrakutas, The Kadambas And The Bahmani Muslims, Before Its 450-Year-Long Occupation By The Portuguese From 1510&Mdash;Has Given It A Distinctive Flavour, A Different Rhythm, An Easy Cosmopolitanism. &Nbsp; Reflected In Water Is A Collection Of Essays, Poems, Stories And Extracts From Published Works That Bring To Life Both The Natural Beauty And The Changing Social And Political Ethos Of India'S Smallest State. From Mario Cabral E Sa'S Delightful Take On The Earliest Portuguese Women To Come To India To Gita Mehta'S Description Of Hippies At Calangute, From Alexander Frater'S Mesmerizing Account Of Goa In The Monsoon To Manohar Malgonkar'S Ode To The Mangeshi Temple, This Anthology Celebrates The Irreverent And The Sacred In Equal Measure. Teotonia R. De Souza'S Profile Of The Little-Known &Lsquo;Opium Smuggler Who Tried To Liberate Goa' Is As Captivating As Frederick Noronha'S Portrait Of AbbÉ Faria, Eighteenth-Century Priest, Mesmerist And Revolutionary, And One Of The Region'S Most Famous Sons. While Antoine Lewis Fleshes Out Goa'S Culinary Delights, Frank Simoes Pays A Tribute To Feni, The Quintessential Spirit Of The Place. Naresh Fernandes'S Obsessive Search For The Elusive Humerus Of St Francis Xavier Echoes Vivek Menezes'S Quest For A Painting By F.N. Souza, Arguably The Greatest Painter The State Has Produced. And Various Aspects Of Goa'S History And Society, Arts And Architecture Engage The Interest Of Writers As Diverse As William Dalrymple And Graham Greene, Maria Couto And Armando Menezes. Insightful Essays, Intense Poetry And Evocative Fiction, As Alluring As The Place They Describe, Make Reflected In Water Redolent Of The Very Essence Of Goa.

Surviving Women

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140287158
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Women written by Jerry Pinto and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Witty, Astute Commentary On The Notion Of Masculinity And The Relationship Between The Sexes. Jerry Pinto Provides Tips On How To Survive The Woman You Love, Or The One Who Dumps You; Your Wife, Or Your Ex-Wife; Your Daughter; Your Mother; Your Female Colleagues.

The Almost Moon

Author : Alice Sebold
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1743032900
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Almost Moon written by Alice Sebold and published by Picador. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. And as this electrifying novel opens, she steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a lifetime's buried desire. Over the next twenty-four hours, her life rushes in at her as she confronts the choices that have brought her to this crossroads. 'Exhilarating, unforgettable ... This is a remarkable novel in which every word is vital, each nuance felt ... Candid, gut-wrenching, at times horribly funny and often beautifully touching ... The genius which guides The Almost Moon is its absolute, horrible, multiple truths; its staggering clarity' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'As moving as it is unquestionably gripping' Observer 'As gripping as it is strange and wild ... My God, it grips ... I lay awake half the night, feverishly hoping both that it would never end, and that it would all be over soon' Rachel Cooke, Evening Standard

A Stranger at My Table

Author : Ivo de Figueiredo
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9780999754474
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book A Stranger at My Table written by Ivo de Figueiredo and published by Doppelhouse Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biracial son of a subcontinental, migrant family searches for his estranged father's story and ultimately rewrites his own.

Tickle Me, Don't Tickle Me: And Other Poems for Magnificent, Turbo-Loaded, Triple-Charged Children

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Speaking Tiger Books
ISBN 13 : 9789389231571
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Tickle Me, Don't Tickle Me: And Other Poems for Magnificent, Turbo-Loaded, Triple-Charged Children written by Jerry Pinto and published by Speaking Tiger Books. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb first book of poetry for children by award-winning author Jerry Pinto. Why is the hamster such a scamster? What's it with mothers and coconut oil? What happens to children who dig their noses? Why do we need new days of the week? What's a questoon? Award-winning author Jerry Pinto answers all these questions and more in his first book of poetry for children. Here you'll find happy poems, serious poems, poems that sound words of warning, poems that leave you on the floor laughing. There are poems about children who top their exams, or go swimming with sharks; and there are poems about fat cats lounging on mats, and rats in Bombay flats. Filled with illustrations as quirky as the poems, Tickle Me, Don't Tickle Me is hilarious and intelligent, tender and wicked. It is glorious.

Asylum and Other Poems

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Speaking Tiger Books
ISBN 13 : 9789390477715
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Asylum and Other Poems written by Jerry Pinto and published by Speaking Tiger Books. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description Bound by the need for breath We lie on beds of foaming rubber. But the room is filled with The rhythm of blood and need and the story. We lie quietly, listening. The whales are singing each to each. It is my last article of belief: They understand their music. You and I only have words. Outside the window The sea, the sea. Searching for safe havens; wanting to cut loose. Trying to make peace with death, love and madness. Learning that we can wound and be wounded. Looking for solace and meaning through rage and confusion. Jerry Pinto's debut collection of poems, Asylum, established him as a true original, a writer unafraid to be vulnerable, to take risks, to open the door and blunder into the world or let it sweep in. He travels, wrote Imtiaz Dharker, 'the breathtaking spaces between madness, luminosity and quiet rebellion...This is a writer who draws precise lines of control, and then, with surprising tenderness, crosses them.'

The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Novel

Author : Manu Joseph
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393344657
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Novel written by Manu Joseph and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky and darkly comic take on domestic life in southern India. The PEN Open Book Award called Manu Joseph "that rare bird who can wildly entertain his readers as forcefully as he moves them." In The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Joseph brilliantly brings his talents to the story of an Indian Christian family living far afield in south India. It has been three years since seventeen-year-old Unni Chacko mysteriously fell from a balcony to his death. His family—journalist father Ousep, who smokes two cigarettes at once “because three is too much”; mother Mariamma, who fantasizes gleefully about murdering her husband; and twelve-year-old love-struck brother Thoma with zero self-esteem, have coped by not coping. When the post office delivers a comic drawn by Unni that had been lost in the mail, Ousep, shocked out of his stupor, ventures on a quest to understand his son and rewrite his family’s story. Combining family drama with philosophy, social satire with satisfying storytelling, The Illicit Happiness of Other People reminds us that the greatest mystery of all—the one most worth our time and energy—is understanding the people we love.