Book : The Namesake A Novel - Lahiri, Jhumpa

-Titulo Original : The Namesake A Novel

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Mariner Books

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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 - 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 Review This eagerly anticipated debut novel deftly expands on Lahiris signature themes of love, solitude and cultural disorientation.Harpers BazaarThis poignant treatment of the immigrant experience is a rich, stimulating fusion of authentic emotion, ironic observation, and revealing details.Library JournalLahiris ... deeply knowing, avidly descriptive, and luxuriously paced first novel is equally triumphant [as Interpreter of Maladies]. Booklist, ALAJhumpa Lahiri expands her Pulitzer Prize-winning short stories of Indian assimilation into her lovely first novel, THE NAMESAKE. Vanity FairLahiri weaves an intricate story of ... an Indian family in America. Their bumpy journey to self-acceptance will move you.Marie Claire[Lahiri] weaves an authentic tale of a Bengali family in Boston... [which] powerfully depicts the universal pull of family traditions.LifetimeThe casual beauty of the writing keeps the pages turning.Elle...immaculately written, seamlessly constructed novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of INTERPRETER OF MALADIES.Book Magazine...remarkably assured first novel. Readers will find here the same elegant, deceptively simple prose that garnered so much praise for her short stories.BookpageA debut novel that is as assured and eloquent as the work of a longtime master of the craft.The New York TimesGracefully written and filled with well-observed details.People Magazine...far more authentic and lavishly imagines than many other young writers best work.TimeOut New YorkLahiri is insightful on the complexities of foreignness.Boston Magazinegraceful and wonderfully specific prose...A Entertainment WeeklyIn the world of literature, Lahiri writes like a native.The San Francisco Chroniclegenerous, exacting portrait of the clash between cultural dictates and one mans heart.Boston GlobeAstringent and clear-eyed in thought, vivid in its portraiture, attuned to American particulars and universal yearnings...memorable fiction.Newsday[Lahiris] writing is assured and patient, inspiring immediate confidence that we are in trustworthy hands.The Los Angeles TimesAchingly artful, Jhumpa Lahiris first novel showcases her prodigious gifts.The Baltimore SunLahiris inventive imagination and mellifluous prose makes her first novel simply wonderful...Its simply splendid.Providence JournalA fine novel from a superb writer The Washington PostA delicate, moving first novel.Time MagazineA debut novel that triumphs in its breadth and mastery.Star LedgerThe novel not only proves the authors ease with the longer form but clearly demonstrates her artistic sensibility.News and Observer...an accomplished novelist of the first rank, to whose further work we can look forward with confidence and excitement The San Diego Union-Tribune...simple yet richly detailed writing that makes the heart ache as [Lahiri] meticulously unfolds the lives of her characters.USA TodayA book to savor, certainly one of the best of the year.Atlanta Journal Constitution[An] exquisitely accomplished novel.San Jose Mercury News...one of the best works of fiction published this year.The Seattle Times...leaves its imprint