Em and the Big Hoom Subclass_Multimedia Filipino and Javanese natives from

Filipino and Javanese natives from the 16th to the 20th century

playing cricket in the street

centuries old

it's impossible to know who your real friends are

Em and the Big Hoom Subclass_Multimedia Filipino and Javanese natives fromProfoundly moving. I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this." Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto's devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literaryworld by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary events of the