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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 ??â???? 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."??â????The New York Times "Hugely appealing."??â????People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga."??â????Entertainment… (altro)
beyondthefourthwall: One is fictional and one not, but in both cases, young men of Indian descent grow up in the English-speaking Western world, all the while considering their roots. Also, impactful events on trains.
beyondthefourthwall: Bostonian immigrants' kids work to find places for themselves. Lahiri's novel is the more bittersweet, but both are full of interesting characters and fascinating details.
La giovanissima autrice anglo indiana ci regala un romanzo sobrio, senza quelle sfumature etniche così convenzionali e di moda, ma ricco di sentimento. C'è una storia in questo libro che suscita una riflessione sulla cultura meticcia, su un fenomeno diffuso e destinato a diventare ancora più tipico del nostro tempo: quell'essere in bilico tra il mondo di appartenenza da cui si è sradicati e il sentirsi riplasmati in un contesto di vita nuovo. La vicenda di Gogol legata ad un nome insolito è la vicenda di chi crescendo smarrisce il senso di appartenenza ad un paese e ad una famiglia e dopo un percorso di conquiste e di sconfitte lotta per ritrovarlo, più vicino al cuore di quanto pensasse. ( )
Jhumpa Lahiri's quietly dazzling new novel, ''The Namesake,'' is that rare thing: an intimate, closely observed family portrait that effortlessly and discreetly unfolds to disclose a capacious social vision.
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The reader should realize himself that it could not have happened otherwise, and that to give him any other name was quite out of the question. -- Nikolai Gogol, 'The Overcoat'
Dedica
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For Alberto and Octavio, whom I call by other names
Incipit
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On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl.
Citazioni
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For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy--a perpetual wait , a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts.
Until now it has not occurred to Gogol that names die over time, that they perish just as people do.
"Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go."
"Now I know why he went to Cleveland, " she tells people, refusing even in death, to utter her husband's name. "He was teaching me how to live alone."
Ultime parole
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As the hours of the evening pass he will grow distracted, anxious to return to his room, to be alone, to read the book he had once forsaken, had abandoned until now. Until moments ago it was destined to disappear from his life altogether, but he has salvaged it by chance, as his father was pulled from a crushed train forty years ago. He leans back against the headboard, adjusting a pillow behind his back. In a few minutes, he will go downstairs, join the party, his family. But for now his mother is distracted, laughing at a story a friend is telling her, unaware of her son's absence. For now, he starts to read.
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 ??â???? 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."??â????The New York Times "Hugely appealing."??â????People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga."??â????Entertainment
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