The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Posted in Recommendations, Fiction on March 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
The Namesake was written by Pulitzer Prize winning Jhumpa Lahiri, an American of Indian origin who writes on themes of cross-cultural conflict and integration. The hero of the novel, Gogol Ganguli, grows up with an oddly Russian forename in an Indian family that has migrated to the States but returns to Calcutta for vacations. Gogol […]