Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail - the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase - that opens whole worlds of emotion. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.
Her stories are one of the very few debut works - and only a handful of collections - to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. But their paths keep crossing with both comic and painfully revelatory consequences… until Gogol begins to see the links between the world his parents left behind and the new world that lies in front of him.Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. As Gogol attempts to forge his destiny – rejecting his given name, dating a rich American girl, heading to study architecture at Yale – his parents cling to their Bengali traditions. As a first-generation American teenager, Gogol must learn to tread a razor-thin line between his Bengali roots and his American birthright in the search for his own identity. But life isn’t as easy for Gogol as his parents might wish. Under pressure to name him quickly, Ashoke settles on Gogol (Kal Penn), after the famous Russian author – a name that serves as a link to a secret past and, Ashoke hopes, a better future. Virtual strangers to one another and with Ashima now living in a new and very strange land, their relationship quickly takes a turn when Ashima gives birth to a son.
On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke (Irrfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) jet off from sweltering Calcutta to a wintry New York where they begin their new life together.
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