![]() ![]() ![]() Elegant, subtle and moving, ‘The Namesake’ is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, ‘Interpreter of Maladies’. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss… In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' – after his favourite writer.īrought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. Lahiris novel The Namesake deftly demonstrates how the familiar struggles between new and old, assimilation and cultural preservation, striving. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. ![]() ![]() And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes…'įor now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. ‘The Namesake’ is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. ![]()
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