The Namesake

''The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"'' Amy Tan ''When her grandmother learned of Ashima''s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family''s first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes...'' For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. 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. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him ''Gogol'' - after his favourite writer. Brought 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. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss... Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri''s debut novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. 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 .

Product details

• Authors: Jhumpa Lahiri
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9780008609986
• ISBN: 978-0-00-860998-6
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Collins Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Medical, FICTION / Satire, North America, India, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, North America (USA & Canada), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary