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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 in this immersive family saga. 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 coming-of-age 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
One name, given in tribute to a Russian author. A lifetime of trying to escape it.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Published: 06/04/2019
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
ISBN: 9780358062684
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.40″ W
About the Author
JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four acclaimed works of fiction. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012.
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