The namesake jhumpa lahiri

The namesake by jhumpa lahiri

About the book:

The namesake

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Publish Date: September, 2003

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

ISBN-10: 0006551807

ISBN-13: 9780006551805

Language: English

Book Pages: 291 (hardback edition)

Genre: Fiction

Review:

The book namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri reinforces the themes that created her novel a great success: the migrator expertise, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and most affectingly, the tangled ties between generations. Here once more Lahiri displays her deft bit for the right detail—the short moment, the flip of phrase—that opens whole worlds of feeling.

This is certainly a completely unique novel that explores the ideas of cultural identity, of rootlessness, of tradition and familial expectation – further because the approach that names subtly (and not thus subtly) alter our perceptions of ourselves – however it’s extremely abundant to its credit that it never succumbs to the clichés those themes thus usually entail. Instead, Lahiri turns it into something both larger and simpler: the story of a person and his family, of his life and hopes, loves and sorrows.

The namesake is a boy’s story grew up Indian in America. Her grandma learned of Ashima’s pregnancy, she was notably excited at the prospect of naming the family’s initial kid. and so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to place off the choice of what to call the baby till a letter comes …’ For now, the label on his hospital cot reads merely BABY BOY GANGULI. however as time passes and still no letter arrives from india, american bureaucracy takes over and demands that ‘by boy Ganguli’ be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him Ưgol – ’96 after his favorite author. brought up as an Indian in residential area America, writer Ganguli presently finds himself itchiness to remove his awkward name, even as he longs to depart behind the heritable values of his Bengali oldsters. and so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss … Spanning 3 decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri’s much-anticipated initial novel could be a triumph of humane storytelling. Elegant, refined and moving, The mortal is for everybody who idolized the clarity, sympathy and charm of Lahiri’s publisher Prize-winning debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies.

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