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Pages: 304, Paperback, Mariner Books

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes. Subgenre: Family + Friendship, General, Conflicts + Dualities, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Types of Characters, Literary. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Pages: 291. Language: English. Format: hardcover. Release Date: September 16, 2003. Date Published: September 16, 2003.

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...

Audio commentary by director Mira Nair. The Anatomy of the Namesake: A Class at Columbia University's Graduate Film School. Fox Movie Channel presents in Character with Kal Penn. Kolkata Love Poem featurette. Photography As Inspiration featurette. Deleted scenes. .

Lahiri's bestselling novel and Pulitzer prize-winning collection of short stories in one volume. Perfect for fans of her beautifully wrought prose and her close examination of Indian-American life and family dynamics. We also carry Interpreter of Maladies (Item IDA243) and The Namesake (Item IDA292) separately. (IDA619, $22.00)

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 wedding, 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...

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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.

Genre: Literary Criticism. Subgenre: American / General. Publisher: Bookclub-In-A-Box. Pages: 84. Language: English. Format: paperback. Release Date: July 1, 2007. Date Published: July 1, 2007.

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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...

A young woman agrees to an arranged marriage and leaves Calcutta to seek a future in the United States. The young couple learns to cope with life in the U.S. but as their children grow up their son Gogol's life choices cause a clash of cultures.

Gogol Ganguli. The name says it all for the main character of The Namesake, a film adaptation of the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. Born in New York to immigrants from India, Gogol received his name from his father, an academic, in reference to famed Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Ignoring the importance it holds for his father, Gogol views his name as an obstacle to his desire to be a normal American teenager and acutely feels the pain of a conflicted identity. The cultural differences between...

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 writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along a first-generation...