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Pages: 304, Edition: 1ST, Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres. Subgenre: Literary, Types of Characters, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Family + Friendship, General, Conflicts + Dualities. Publisher: Mariner Books. Pages: 291. Edition: Reprint. Language: English. Format: paperback. Date Published: September 1, 2004.

Release Date: 2007-03-06, Audio CD, Rounder / Umgd

Based upon the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri and brought to the screen by acclaimed Indian director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), this vibrant celebration of love, loyalty and family will stir your senses and touch your heart. Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) stars as Gogol Ganguli, a suburban teenager who finds himself caught between his Indian roots and his American birthright as he searches for his own identity. From Calcutta to New York, Gogol and his Indian-born parents must...

Lahiri, Jhumpa The Namesake - 1st Edition/1st Printing Details & Images Binding: 1/4 Cloth Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket Edition: First Edition; First Printing Size: 8vo; [x], 291, [3] pages; Signed by Author Publisher: Houghton and Mifflin, 2003, Boston ISBN: 0395927218 [Book #14897] A stunning First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, signed by author Jhumpa Lahiri directly on the title page; The second book by Jhumpa Lahiri, originally published...

The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian...

Description Table of Contents Author Bios 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. 1. 1968 On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen...

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American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

From The Jacket A Portrait of the Film by Mira Nair Based on the Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri Introductions by Mira Nair and Jhumpa Lahiri This exclusive companion to The Namesake features a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri about the experience of seeing her novel “transposed” into film, an essay by acclaimed director Mira Nair about the critical influence of photographers on the scene during production in New York and Calcutta. Brilliantly illuminating the immigrant experience and...

Jhumpa Lahiri's poignant first novel builds on the themes of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES. In THE NAMESAKE, the Ganguli family emigrates from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage. An MIT engineering student, Ashoke is progressive and ready to enter American culture, while his tradition-bound wife, Ashima, desperately misses her Indian home and resists the new world. When their first...

Fiction - Literary

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Pages: 291, Edition: Reprint, Library Binding

Product Description Authentic original US one sheet theatrical movie poster of THE NAMESAKE (Double Sided Advance) starring Zuleikha Robinson, Tabu, Irfan Khan as displayed in cinemas/movie theatres. All of our posters are mint/near mint unless otherwise stated. This poster measures approximately 27x41 inches (69x104cm). Our posters are supplied rolled in a sturdy tube. Need help with movie poster terminology?