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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.
- Jhumpa Lahiri - Author
- Sarita Choudhury - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415944769
- File size: 292709 KB
- Release date: September 16, 2003
- Duration: 10:09:48
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415944769
- File size: 292756 KB
- Release date: September 16, 2003
- Duration: 10:09:45
- Number of parts: 9
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Lexile® Measure:1140
Text Difficulty:8-9