This is a world of magnified and dark emotion. It plunged me into a world so vivid and capricious, that when I finished, I found something had shifted and changed within myself. As I read the novel, that also portrays a very tender marriage and the life of a Goan family in Bombay, it drowned me. “ Pinto chases the elusive portrait of a mother who simply said of herself that she was mad. One of the very best books to come out of India in a long, long, time.” – Salman Rushdie, Best of the Booker winner for Midnight’s Children “Em and the Big Hoom is a beautiful book, a child’s-eye view of madness and sorrow, full of love, pain, and, unaccountably, much wild comedy. “ Pinto’s engaging debut, ripe with wit and affection, portrays an unforgettable family of four in middleclass, Catholic Mumbai as their lives revolve around their manic-depressive matriarch, Em.” - Booklist I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this.” - Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace
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