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The namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa.

Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin,
Pub date:	2003.
Pages:	291 p. ;
ISBN:	0618485228
Item info:	7 copies available at Katy Geissert Civic Center Library, El Retiro Branch Library, Henderson Branch Library, North Torrance Branch Library, Southeast Branch Library, and Walteria Branch Library.
Number of holds:	0

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Summary

#60; b #62;A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author #60; /b #62; #60; P #62; #60; I #62;The Namesake #60; /I #62; 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 resu 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. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Author Biography

Jhumpa Lahiri's debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 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 Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Title
Chapter 2. Fiction

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ISBN:	0618485228 (pbk.) : $14.00
ISBN:	0395927218 (hbk.) : $24.00
Personal Author:	Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Title:	The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri.
Publication info:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Physical descrip:	291 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:	A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
Personal subject:	Gogol�, Nikolai Vasil�evich, 1809-1852--Appreciation--Fiction.
Subject term:	Young men--Fiction.
Subject term:	East Indian Americans--Fiction.
Subject term:	Children of immigrants--Fiction.
Subject term:	Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction.
Subject term:	Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction.
Geographic term:	Massachusetts--Fiction.
Genre index term:	Domestic fiction. lcsh
Genre index term:	Bildungsromans. gsafd
HTTP:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/2003041718.html