The Namesake
A Novel
Jhumpa Lahiri
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Namesake
A Novel
Jhumpa Lahiri
About This Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times) 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 â conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
"Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."âThe New York Times
"Hugely appealing."âPeople Magazine
"An exquisitely detailed family saga."âEntertainment Weekly