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Multigenerational journey of identity and belonging.
If you're drawn to tales that weave through the complexities of identity, culture, and the immigrant experience, "The Namesake" will resonate deeply with you. It’s not just a beautifully written story; it's a canvas where Jhumpa Lahiri paints the universal quest for self alongside the specifics of a Bengali family's struggles and triumphs. Embrace it for a read that’s both intimate and expansive.
- Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2004)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780007173037
Authors:
Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.02
(rated by 276207 readers)
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In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her first book an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail—the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase—that opens whole worlds of emotion. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. The New
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Multigenerational journey of identity and belonging.
If you're drawn to tales that weave through the complexities of identity, culture, and the immigrant experience, "The Namesake" will resonate deeply with you. It’s not just a beautifully written story; it's a canvas where Jhumpa Lahiri paints the universal quest for self alongside the specifics of a Bengali family's struggles and triumphs. Embrace it for a read that’s both intimate and expansive.
- Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2004)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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