„Jerry Pinto“ is the author of „Em and the Big Hoom“ (winner of the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction) and „Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb“ (winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema). His other works include translations (from Marathi) of the autobiographies of Daya Pawar („Baluta“), Malika Amar Shaikh („I Want to Destroy Myself“) and Vandana Mishra („I, the Salt Doll“), as well as Sachin Kundalkar“s novel, „Cobalt Blue“. He has also edited several anthologies, including „A Book of Light“, „Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai“ (with Naresh Fernandes). He was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize in 2016.
21 Ebooks von Jerry Pinto
Sachin Kundalkar: Cobalt Blue
Now a film from Netflix India, this memorable novel confronts issues of sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and their family’s lodger Recently adapted i …
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€28.99
Jerry Pinto: Murder in Mahim
He looks around to see if anyone else is watching them. Some of the older men are looking at him hungrily. He opens his eyes wide and raises his eyebrows. They look away hurriedly. Some even walk awa …
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€8.99
Daya Pawar: Baluta
The first Dalit autobiography to be published, Baluta caused a sensation when it first appeared, in Marathi, in 1978. It quickly acquired the status of a classic of modern Indian literature and was …
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€5.49
Daya Pawar: Baluta
The first Dalit autobiography to be published, Baluta caused a sensation when it first appeared, in Marathi, in 1978. It quickly acquired the status of a classic of modern Indian literature and was …
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€11.99
Vandana Mishra: I, The Salt Doll
Sushila Lotlikar was barely in her teens when tragedy forced her to give up her education and join Parshwanath Altekar’s Little Theatre in Mumbai in 1940. But the young Konkani girl soon became a hit …
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€10.99
Vandana Mishra: I, The Salt Doll
Sushila Lotlikar was barely in her teens when tragedy forced her to give up her education and join Parshwanath Altekar’s Little Theatre in Mumbai in 1940. But the young Konkani girl soon became a hit …
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€5.49
Jerry Pinto: A Book of Light
In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, Em and the Big Hoom, which drew upon his experience of living with a mother who was bipolar. It touched thousands of readers, among them many who had s …
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€11.99
Jerry Pinto: A Book of Light
In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, Em and the Big Hoom, which drew upon his experience of living with a mother who was bipolar. It touched thousands of readers, among them many who had s …
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€7.49
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Case of Lady Sannox
‘Excision of the wound, then?’
‘That is it. If it be on the finger, take the finger off. So said my father always. But think of where this wound is, and that it is my wife. It is dreadful!’…
‘It …
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€10.99
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Case of Lady Sannox
‘Excision of the wound, then?’
‘That is it. If it be on the finger, take the finger off. So said my father always. But think of where this wound is, and that it is my wife. It is dreadful!’…
‘It …
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€4.49
Malika Amar Shaikh: I Want to Destroy Myself
Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parents—her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of Maharashtria …
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€7.99
Ganesh Matkari: Half-Open Windows
‘On one side, the sea. On the other, the city. A city that seemed to believe that the Queen’s Necklace was enough past for it, a city sacrificing its beauty at the dirty altars of money.’
An acclai …
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€5.49
Ganesh Matkari & Jerry Pinto: Half-Open Windows
‘On one side, the sea. On the other, the city. A city that seemed to believe that the Queen’s Necklace was enough past for it, a city sacrificing its beauty at the dirty altars of money.’
An acclai …
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€10.99
Jerry Pinto: LEELA
Leela Naidu was listed as one of the five most beautiful women in the world by Vogue magazine. But she was much more than that. She was the fine-boned; haunting face in Hrishikesh Mukherjee s …
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€11.22
Jerry Pinto: Talk of the Town
Here s a quiz. If you answer all the questions right, you do not need this book. 1.When King Charles II received the city of Bombay as his dowry, he thought it was in a) PBI – India b) Brazil c) …
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€9.98
Jerry Pinto: Helen
It is now over two decades since the Hindi-film heroine drove the vamp into extinction, and even longer since the silver screen was ignited by the true Bollywood version of a cabaret. Yet, Helen – …
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€14.87
Jerry Pinto: Asylum
Jerry Pinto’s accomplished first book of poems travels the breathtaking spaces between madness, luminosity and quiet rebellion. Here, even paper has a life of its own, and that is just the beginning. …
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€1.24
Jerry Pinto: Em and the Big Hoom
Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years.She was always Em to us. There may have been …
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€8.99
Altaf Tyrewala: Mumbai Noir
“The stories in this noir anthology are as raw and diverse as the city of Mumbai itself, humming with the feel for the city’s pulse and patter.” —The National Today …
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€18.71
Jerry Pinto: Em and the Big Hoom
Set in Bombay during the last decades of the twentieth century, Em and The Big Hoom tells the compelling story of the Mendeses mother, father, daughter and son. Between Em, the beedi – smoking, …
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€19.35
