Em and the Big Hoom
Pinto, Jerry2015
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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. Here is the story of how this family of four came to be.
Main title:
Em and the Big Hoom / Jerry Pinto.
Author:
Pinto, Jerry, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2015.UK : Penguin Books, 2015.
Collation:
212 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: India: Aleph Book Company, 2012.
ISBN:
9780241966518 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1669482