Em And The Big Hoom
Jerry Pinto
Aleph
Writer, columnist and journalist Jerry Pinto’s first novel paints a vivid, poignant portrait of a Roman Catholic Goan family with a hole in its heart. Em and the Big Hoom isn’t a ‘big picture’ Mumbai novel. It isn’t Maximum City or Love and Longing in Bombay. It is a son’s intimate and moving account of growing up in a middle class home in Mahim with a loving and irrepressible mother (Em to her children) susceptible to “terrifying manic rages”. The novel is refreshingly unsentimental yet emotionally gripping. Its reality-cloaked-in-fiction device lends both immediacy and vitality to the tale.
The Man Within My Head
Pico Iyer
Penguin
The Man Within My Head explores the “shadowy place” that travel writer Pico Iyer draws his inspiration from. This wonderfully well written and passionate book is significant for many reasons. Of all the riches that it contains, none is as precious as Iyer’s extended meditation on the relationship that he has as a writer and a man with Graham Greene, who he never met in person. Not only does it tell us a great deal more about the Englishman than we already know, it also gives us an insight into where the author has come from and where he wants to go.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
Penguin
Joseph Lelyveld, Mahatma Gandhi biographer and old India hand, described the book as “the best piece of reporting to come out of India in a half century at least”. There might be a bit of exaggeration in that opinion, but Katherine Boo’s empathetic and engrossing probe into the grimy yet dynamic lives of the denizens of a Mumbai slum near the Sahar International Airport is certainly the finest narrative non-fiction book published during the year. Although the writer spent three years in Annawadi slum, she keeps herself out of the narrative and relates a dramatic tale that is neither romantized nor exoticized.
The Meadow
Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark
Penguin
In 1995 during a trekking expedition at Pahalgam, four foreigners were abducted by the then unknown militant group Al-Faran. The Meadow includes blow-by-blow account of the negotiations for the hostages’ release between an inspector and the militants. It is also revealed that instead of working to secure the foreigners’ release, the Indian intelligence agencies protracted its detainment and sabotaged parleys with the militants as part of a bigger, well laid out plan to present Pakistan, and the Pakistan-supported insurgency in Kashmir, in a callous and ruthless light.
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Jerry Pinto
Aleph
Writer, columnist and journalist Jerry Pinto’s first novel paints a vivid, poignant portrait of a Roman Catholic Goan family with a hole in its heart. Em and the Big Hoom isn’t a ‘big picture’ Mumbai novel. It isn’t Maximum City or Love and Longing in Bombay. It is a son’s intimate and moving account of growing up in a middle class home in Mahim with a loving and irrepressible mother (Em to her children) susceptible to “terrifying manic rages”. The novel is refreshingly unsentimental yet emotionally gripping. Its reality-cloaked-in-fiction device lends both immediacy and vitality to the tale.
The Man Within My Head
Pico Iyer
Penguin
The Man Within My Head explores the “shadowy place” that travel writer Pico Iyer draws his inspiration from. This wonderfully well written and passionate book is significant for many reasons. Of all the riches that it contains, none is as precious as Iyer’s extended meditation on the relationship that he has as a writer and a man with Graham Greene, who he never met in person. Not only does it tell us a great deal more about the Englishman than we already know, it also gives us an insight into where the author has come from and where he wants to go.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
Penguin
Joseph Lelyveld, Mahatma Gandhi biographer and old India hand, described the book as “the best piece of reporting to come out of India in a half century at least”. There might be a bit of exaggeration in that opinion, but Katherine Boo’s empathetic and engrossing probe into the grimy yet dynamic lives of the denizens of a Mumbai slum near the Sahar International Airport is certainly the finest narrative non-fiction book published during the year. Although the writer spent three years in Annawadi slum, she keeps herself out of the narrative and relates a dramatic tale that is neither romantized nor exoticized.
The Meadow
Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark
Penguin
In 1995 during a trekking expedition at Pahalgam, four foreigners were abducted by the then unknown militant group Al-Faran. The Meadow includes blow-by-blow account of the negotiations for the hostages’ release between an inspector and the militants. It is also revealed that instead of working to secure the foreigners’ release, the Indian intelligence agencies protracted its detainment and sabotaged parleys with the militants as part of a bigger, well laid out plan to present Pakistan, and the Pakistan-supported insurgency in Kashmir, in a callous and ruthless light.
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