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The namesake

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Boston : Mariner, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Mariner Books edView all editions and formats
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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. The Namesake brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Named Person: Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 9780618733965 0618733965
OCLC Number: 80014783
Description: 291 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Jhumpa Lahiri.

Abstract:

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. The Namesake brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations.

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