Em and the Big Hoom : a novel /

""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 devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused wi...

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Main Author: Pinto, Jerry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
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