Our Second Book
No need to stop discussing our first, but if you're craving something new on your nightstand then it's time to start reading our second book:
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahirir
Here's Amanzon's description:
Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled ties between generations.
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 loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
With empathy and penetrating insight, Lahiri explores the expectations bestowed on us by our parents and the means by which we come to define who we are.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahirir
Here's Amanzon's description:
Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled ties between generations.
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 loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
With empathy and penetrating insight, Lahiri explores the expectations bestowed on us by our parents and the means by which we come to define who we are.
posted by Witty Women at 7:42 AM
5 Comments:
Ooh, I can hardly wait. Amazon, here I come.
Same here. I may even get dressed on my day off and leave the house to buy it!
In case you're curious about how the books are selected, I'd like to explain. It seemed like a good idea to rotate who picks the book. I picked Jen, she picked Kelly, Kelly's off raising her brand new baby, so I stepped in. Next will be Kelly and then whoever she picks and so on!
Oh I can see a diversion into Bollywood coming into this discussion. Of course this has nothing to do with me being a HUGE Bolly fan. Shahrukh Khan rules.
I loved the Interpreter of Maladies although I think I need to read it again. So many great books by Indian writers...A Suitable Boy...God of Small Things...The Tennis Partner...One Annie sent me called Brick Lane. I just picked up the story of Magellen's circumnavigation of the earth, and Graham Greene's The Orient Express for my trip to Portugal next month, so I'll have lot's of time to read on vacation, because alas the accordion has to stay home.
Brick Lane is excellent; the book & location, the best place to get a decent curry in London :-)
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