The Namesake

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Lahiri’s short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and her deeply knowing, avidly descriptive, and luxuriously paced first novel is equally triumphant. Ashoke Ganguli, a doctoral candidate at MIT, chose Gogol as a pet name for his and his wife’s first-born because a volume of the Russian writer’s work literally saved his life, but, in one of many confusions endured by the immigrant Bengali couple, Gogol ends up on the boy’s birth certificate. Unaware of the dramatic story behind his unusual and, eventually, much hated name, Gogol refuses to read his namesake’s work, and just before he leaves for Yale, he goes to court to change his name to Nikhil. Immensely relieved to escape his parents’ stubbornly all-Bengali world, he does his best to shed his Indianness, losing himself in the study of architecture and passionate if rocky love affairs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in 1967 in London, and grew up in Rhode Island. She graduated with a B.A. in English literature from Barnard College. She entered Boston University, and received an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, and an M.A. in Comparative Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. Three of her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker in 1998. Interpreter of Maladies, came out in early 1999 and eventually won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

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Title
The Namesake
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0007173032
Length
291p.
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