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The Namesake


A Literary Fiction Novel

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Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations.

Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from a writer of uncommon elegance and poise.

Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home.

The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world — conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.

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