Name sake is first Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri it dealing with highly distinct religious ,social and ideological difference .It described struggle and hardship of Bengali couple who immigrate tothe United State.
Also presented American
versus Indian Culture and main events is appreciating Freindship
more than Family.
In The Namesake Lahiri
enriches the theme that made her International collection bestseller
book.
The immigrant experience the
clash of culture the conflicts of equation and most poignantly
the tangled ties between
generations .The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their
tradition bound life in Culcutta through their fought Transformation
into Americans an the heels of their arranged wedding.
Ashoke and
Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge .When their son is
born the task of naming him betrays the Voxed result of bringing old
ways to the new world named for Russian writer by his Indian parents
in memory of calamity year before Gogol Ganguli knows only
that he suffersa the burden of his heritage as well as his odd antic
name .
Lahiri bring great empathy
to Gogol as he stambles along the first generation path ,strewn with
conflicting loyalties comic circumference 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.
The New York Times has
paraised Lahiri as “A writer of uncommon elegence and pois”
deeply felt Novel of
identity.
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