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Jhumpa Lahiri and
Sarita Choudhury (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
August 1, 2006
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739341360
ISBN-10
0739341367
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 6 in.
Weight
0.58 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. 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.
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, 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 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, 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.
Editions
Hardcover
With Mira Nair (other contributor) |
from Newmarket Pr (December 18, 2006)
9781557047410 | details & prices | 144 pages | 7.50 × 11.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.66 lbs | List price $30.00
About: A homage to Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, 'The Namesake' and its Hollywood adaptation looks at the creative process and friendship between the author and director, featuring essays by the author and director along with dozens of images from the film and the India of Nair and Lahiri.
About: A homage to Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, 'The Namesake' and its Hollywood adaptation looks at the creative process and friendship between the author and director, featuring essays by the author and director along with dozens of images from the film and the India of Nair and Lahiri.
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (December 1, 2003)
9781587245169 | details & prices | 447 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $31.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
from Houghton Mifflin (September 16, 2003)
9780395927212 | details & prices | 291 pages | 6.25 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $24.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Reissue edition from Mariner Books (January 1, 2007)
9780618733965 | details & prices | 291 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $14.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
Reprint edition from Mariner Books (September 1, 2004)
9780618485222 | details & prices | 291 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $15.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Sarita Choudhury (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (August 1, 2006)
9780739341360 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.58 lbs | List price $34.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Sarita Choudhury (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (August 24, 2004)
9780739315811 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.25 × 2.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $24.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
With Sarita Choudhury (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (September 1, 2003)
9780739306956 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.25 × 2.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $34.95
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (October 10, 2008)
9781439562475 | details & prices | 291 pages | List price $23.95
About: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation.
About: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation.
from Turtleback Books (September 1, 2004); titled "Namesake"
9781417647859 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $28.10
About: 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.
About: 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.
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