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Jerry Pinto reviews

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       The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two Jerry Pinto titles:
  • 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
       Helen who ? you ask. Well, Merchant-Ivory devoted a documentary to her -- Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls -- and in The Caravan Manil Suri admits he: 'had always wanted to dance like Helen', in My Life As A Cabaret Dancer, so .....
       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.)

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