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The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.Description: 291 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780007258918
  • 9780395927212
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.54 21
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Contents:
Title -- Fiction.
Chapter 1.. Chapter 2..
Review: "< b>A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author< /b>< P>< I>The Namesake< /I> takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, 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 resu 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Title -- Fiction.

Chapter 1.. Chapter 2..

"< b>A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author< /b>< P>< I>The Namesake< /I> takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, 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 resu 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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