The Namesake

出版者:Mariner Books

作者:Jhumpa Lahiri

页数:291

出版时间:2004-9

价格:USD 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780618485222

图书标签:印度小说移民Jhumpa_Lahiri美国immigrant外国文学fiction

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Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, 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 an arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Ashoke does his best to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son, Gogol, is born, the task of naming him betrays their hope of respecting old ways in a new world. And we watch as Gogol stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.

With empathy and penetrating insight, Lahiri explores the expectations bestowed on us by our parents and the means by which we come to define who we are.

读后感

If you like the movie, you'll love the book. It have a lot more detail than the movie which make it more charming and realistic. The movie change the name of some characters and shortened the time period then the book.(The book begins at late 60's whereas ...

If you like the movie, you'll love the book. It have a lot more detail than the movie which make it more charming and realistic. The movie change the name of some characters and shortened the time period then the book.(The book begins at late 60's whereas ...

If you like the movie, you'll love the book. It have a lot more detail than the movie which make it more charming and realistic. The movie change the name of some characters and shortened the time period then the book.(The book begins at late 60's whereas ...

If you like the movie, you'll love the book. It have a lot more detail than the movie which make it more charming and realistic. The movie change the name of some characters and shortened the time period then the book.(The book begins at late 60's whereas ...

If you like the movie, you'll love the book. It have a lot more detail than the movie which make it more charming and realistic. The movie change the name of some characters and shortened the time period then the book.(The book begins at late 60's whereas ...

用户评价

maladroit. the russian gogol would not appreciate this

略翻过，另一个波士顿的故事

很喜欢坐着的白描。虽然平淡，但是真实无比。

wat we read in english class,worth to ponder.

65 books to read in 20s书单里面的。印度第二代移民的故事。还算是能读吧，至少陪我度过了几天回老家的时光。