The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two Jerry Pinto titles:
Em and the Big Hoom, on the other hand, is fiction -- the US edition coming with blurbs by Booker-winners Salman Rushdie and Kiran Desai, and a review by Eileen Battersby in the Irish Times finding: "There may not be such a thing as a perfect book, yet Jerry Pinto comes heartbreakingly close", so .....
(Interestingly, in the UK this just came out in hardback; the US publisher went with the paperback original format.)
- His prize-winning (The Hindu Literary Prize, 2012; the Crossword Book Award, 2013) Em and the Big Hoom, now also available in the UK and US
- His study of Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb
Em and the Big Hoom, on the other hand, is fiction -- the US edition coming with blurbs by Booker-winners Salman Rushdie and Kiran Desai, and a review by Eileen Battersby in the Irish Times finding: "There may not be such a thing as a perfect book, yet Jerry Pinto comes heartbreakingly close", so .....
(Interestingly, in the UK this just came out in hardback; the US publisher went with the paperback original format.)