JERRY PINTO

On the streets of the vibrant and anarchic city of Mumbai, the film poster is a familiar splash of colour. It is an invitation to the pleasures of Bollywood, the world''s largest film industry. This most democratic of art forms meets one of the world''s most exciting cinema industries and the result is an explosion of colour, form and typography. Bollywood''s film posters have had a long and glorious history that is only now being recognized and noted, and is brilliantly celebrated here in this lavish volume. "Bollywood Posters" is a must-have for film buffs, graphic designers and art-lovers.

Confronté depuis son enfance aux troubles mentaux de sa mère, un fils retrace l’histoire du couple que formèrent ses parents. Il dresse l’émouvant portrait de cette mère, Em, Indienne catholique de G

Confronté depuis son enfance aux troubles mentaux de sa mère, un fils retrace l’histoire du couple que formèrent ses parents. Il dresse l’émouvant portrait de cette mère, Em, Indienne catholique de G

First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pintos devastatingly original 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, oras our young narrator calls his unusual parentsEm 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 Ems 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.

Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pintos 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 dont 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 GhoshPinto 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 DesaiA childs-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 RushdieJerry 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.