The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0618485228 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0618485228 Global Overview for this book
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SqueakyChu
of Rockville, Maryland USA on 6/6/2021
This book is in a Controlled Release!
SqueakyChu of Rockville, Maryland USA on 6/6/2021 This book is in a Controlled Release!
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This trade paperback in one of nine anonymously-donated books to the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720). Thank you so much!
I read another copy of this book in 2006. This is what I wrote aafter I read it...
Gogol Ganguli (who later changed his name to Nikhil) is the sone of a Bengali couple who move to Massachusetts. Gogol studies architecture and attempts to escape from his parents’ Bengali culture by completely immersing himself in American values. In the end, he marries the daughter of another Bengali couple, but this marriage does not work out as his wife slowly slips into an affair with a man named Dimitri.
This is a very heart-warming family portrait of a Bengali customs. It shows the difficulty Ashima (Gogol’s mother) has as she adopts to life in the United States, but that despite her cultural difference, she eventually adapts to American life. In the end, we see that Gogol also slowly begins to recognize his ancestral culture when he finds Moushumi attracting him enough to want to marry her.
Gogol Ganguli (who later changed his name to Nikhil) is the sone of a Bengali couple who move to Massachusetts. Gogol studies architecture and attempts to escape from his parents’ Bengali culture by completely immersing himself in American values. In the end, he marries the daughter of another Bengali couple, but this marriage does not work out as his wife slowly slips into an affair with a man named Dimitri.
This is a very heart-warming family portrait of a Bengali customs. It shows the difficulty Ashima (Gogol’s mother) has as she adopts to life in the United States, but that despite her cultural difference, she eventually adapts to American life. In the end, we see that Gogol also slowly begins to recognize his ancestral culture when he finds Moushumi attracting him enough to want to marry her.
I'm releasing this book by request to the steward of the Rose Hill Falls Little free LIbrary in Rckville, Maryland, USA.
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