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The Namesake.: A Novel
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Published:
[United States] : HarperCollins, 2004.
Content Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Points: 18
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1140L
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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.

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Format:
eBook
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780547429311, 0547429312
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 7.2, 18 Points
Lexile measure:
1140

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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.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Lahiri, J. (2004). The Namesake. [United States], HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2004. The Namesake. [United States], HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake. [United States], HarperCollins, 2004.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. [United States], HarperCollins, 2004.

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