The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Paperback Book

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Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: Sep 2004

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $15.99

Pages: 291

Synopsis

Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer for her story collection, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES. Her first novel, set in Boston and New York, begins in 1968 with a young Indian man doing research at MIT, and his wife, who becomes pregnant with a son. As years go by, their son, unlike his parents, becomes thoroughly westernized and even rebellious, with a series of non-Indian girlfriends--none of whom stick. After a painful breakup, in the year 2000, the young man, who was named Gogol on a whim of his father's (he has since changed it), decides it's time to read a book by the Russian writer for whom he is named. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

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