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Book Review: Em and the Big Hoom

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Jerry Pinto's debut novel Em and the Big Hoom will unfailingly leave a searing, lingering void within you. I remember the time I'd finished reading it, on a local train returning back to my Hostel after College. Kiran Desai very eloquently echoes my state of mind at the time: 'It plunged me into a world so vivid and capricious, that when I finished, I found something had shifted and changed within myself.' I recall turning the last page, in desperate hope that the next would resume the ...

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