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The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri. by Lahiri, Jhumpa Boston : Mariner Books, 2004, c2003. Subjects Bengali Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780618485222 (pbk.) Description:  291 p. ; 22 cm. Edition:  1st Mariner Books ed. Notes:  Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2003. Summary:  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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Central Library General Fiction F On Loan 26/09/2010 Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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