NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri
brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties
between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply
felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise."
(The New York Times)
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.
"Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."--The New
York Times
"Hugely appealing."--People Magazine
"An exquisitely detailed family saga."--Entertainment Weekly