The Namesake
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Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780358062684 ISBN-10: 0358062683Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world – conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
"Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."–The New York Times
"Hugely appealing."–People Magazine
"An exquisitely detailed family saga."–Entertainment Weekly
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world – conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
"Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."–The New York Times
"Hugely appealing."–People Magazine
"An exquisitely detailed family saga."–Entertainment Weekly
Dimensions
8.25 inches × 0.81 inches × 5.5 inches
0.83 pounds
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
