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The Namesake

The Namesake( )
Read by: Lahiri, Jhumpa
Choudhury, Sarita
Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa
ISBN:978-0-7393-4136-0
Publication Date:Aug 2006
Publisher:Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint:RH Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $34.95
Book Description:

Jhumpa Lahiri’sInterpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. InThe 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. The Namesaketakes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans....
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Asian American & Pacific Islander
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.1 x 5.9 x 1.2 Inches
Book Weight:0.582 Pounds
Author Biography
Lahiri, Jhumpa (Read by)
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, England on July 11, 1967. She received a B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989, and a M.A. in English, a M.A. in Creative Writing, a M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University.

Lahiri taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her debut work, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. She has also won the PEN/Hemmingway Award, an O. Henry Award, The New Yorker's best debut of the year award, and an Addison Metcalf award. Her other works include The Namesake, which was made into a movie in 2007, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland, which won 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

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