| The Namesake Contributor(s): Lahiri, Jhumpa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0358062683 ISBN-13: 9780358062684 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Asian American |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2019003105 |
| Lexile Measure: 1140 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 77440 Reading Level: 7.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 -- 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. -- The New York Times Hugely appealing. -- People Magazine An exquisitely detailed family saga. -- Entertainment Weekly |
Contributor Bio(s): Lahiri, Jhumpa: - Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole. |