The Namesake

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri


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Paperback. Pub Date :2004-9-1 Pages: 291 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Jhumpa Lahiris debut story collection. Interpreter ofMaladies. took the literary world by storm when it won the PulitzerPrize in 2000 Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivatedby. her best-selling first novel. now in paperback for the firsttime The Namesake is a finely wrought. deeply moving family dramathat illuminates this acclaimed authors signature themes:. theimmigrant experience. the clash of cultures. the tangled tiesbetween generations.The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-boundlife in Calcutta through their fraught transformation intoAmericans. On the heels of an arranged wedding. Ashoke and AshimaGanguli settle in Cambridge. Massachusetts. where Ashoke does hisbest to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son. Gogol. is born. the task of naming him b...


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Paperback. Pub Date :2004-9-1 Pages: 291 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Jhumpa Lahiris debut story collection. Interpreter ofMaladies. took the literary world by storm when it won the PulitzerPrize in 2000 Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivatedby. her best-selling first novel. now in paperback for the firsttime The Namesake is a finely wrought. deeply moving family dramathat illuminates this acclaimed authors signature themes:. theimmigrant experience. the clash of cultures. the tangled tiesbetween generations.The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-boundlife in Calcutta through their fraught transformation intoAmericans. On the heels of an arranged wedding. Ashoke and AshimaGanguli settle in Cambridge. Massachusetts. where Ashoke does hisbest to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son. Gogol. is born. the task of naming him b...



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Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she...


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