The Namesake

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Praise for
Interpreter of Maladies
"A wonderfully distinctive new voice . . . Ms. Lahiri chronicles her characters' lives with both objectivity and compassion while charting the emotional temperature of their lives wi til tactile precision." — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Jhumpa Lahiri writes such direct, translucent prose you almost forget you're reading . . . This remarkable first collection gains much of its power from the gentle narrative voice." — Newsweek
" "Stunning . . . Lahiri's touch is delicate yet assured, leaving
no room for flubbed notes or forced epiphanies." J. — Los Angeles Times Book Review


ISBN 0-395-92721-8
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works — and only a handful of collections — to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors the book received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year,... Tovább

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PW
Praise for
Interpreter of Maladies
"A wonderfully distinctive new voice . . . Ms. Lahiri chronicles her characters' lives with both objectivity and compassion while charting the emotional temperature of their lives wi til tactile precision." — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Jhumpa Lahiri writes such direct, translucent prose you almost forget you're reading . . . This remarkable first collection gains much of its power from the gentle narrative voice." — Newsweek
" "Stunning . . . Lahiri's touch is delicate yet assured, leaving
no room for flubbed notes or forced epiphanies." J. — Los Angeles Times Book Review


ISBN 0-395-92721-8
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works — and only a handful of collections — to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors the book received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year, the FEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.
In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along a first-generation path strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.
The New York Times has praised Lahiri as "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." The Nafnesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity.
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j H U M P A l A HIRI's debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies^ won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a bestseller in the United States and abroad. In addition to the Pulitzer, it received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2002. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
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