{"id":3718,"date":"2003-09-26T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:49:18","slug":"the-namesake-by-jhumpa-lahiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-namesake-by-jhumpa-lahiri\/","title":{"rendered":"The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Namesake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31808\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Namesake.jpg\" alt=\"Namesake\" width=\"948\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Namesake.jpg 948w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Namesake-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Namesake-800x1200.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/a>The long-awaited debut novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, <em>Interpreter of Maladies<\/em>, begins in 1968 with newlyweds-by-arrangement Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli living in Cambridge, Mass. They name their first child Gogol, after the Russian writer whose story \u201cThe Overcoat\u201d Ashoke was reading when a train accident almost ended his life. Lahiri delicately weaves intricacies of naming and names throughout this novel that follows Gogol\u2019s life with frustration and awe, disappointment and wonder, tragedy and love \u2013 though not necessarily in that order \u2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3719\" title=\"Namesake\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/namesake.jpg\" alt=\"Namesake\" width=\"128\" height=\"189\" \/>The long-awaited debut novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, <em>Interpreter of Maladies<\/em>, begins in 1968 with newlyweds-by-arrangement Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli living in Cambridge, Mass. They name their first child Gogol, after the Russian writer whose story \u201cThe Overcoat\u201d Ashoke was reading when a train accident almost ended his life. Lahiri delicately weaves intricacies of naming and names throughout this novel that follows Gogol\u2019s life with frustration and awe, disappointment and wonder, tragedy and love \u2013 though not necessarily in that order \u2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,53,6535,18,31],"tags":[3598,83,6608,58,10,189,25,610,13,4406,39],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-indian-american","category-repost","category-south-asian-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-asianweek","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-immigration","tag-jhumpa-lahiri","tag-love","tag-namesake","tag-parent-child-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-namesake-by-jhumpa-lahiri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The long-awaited debut novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, begins in 1968 with newlyweds-by-arrangement Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli living in Cambridge, Mass. 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