Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian.
“The Namesake” is the first novel by American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It was originally a novel published in The New Yorker and was later expanded to a full-length novel. It is moving between events in Calcutta, Boston, and New York City, the novel examines the nuances involved with being caught between two conflicting cultures with highly distinct religious, social, and ideological differences.
This novel describes the life of Ganguli family and mostly the life of Gogol. It is about differences between culture and generation. There is a reason why Ashok and Ashima, father and mother od Gogol and Sonia has named their son Gogol. Ashok was travelling in the train and that train met an accident at that time, Ashok has the pages of author Nikolai Gogol’s book and that is the reason he has been saved. But Gogol fails to understand this. As he grows he started disliking his name and also started remaining away from the house. When he got in to the university he changed his name as Nikhil. Behind this act he has his own reasons. The name Gogol is making him different from others, he has been tolerated so many teasing because of this and that is why he choose to change the name.
As novel proceeds, there were so many deaths, but the death of Ashok has most effected Ashima and Gogol. Ashima is changed now as now she don’t wish to go back to India. Now she don’t has so many desires. Gogol at the end when his father is not there, he learns about the story behind his name Gogol. He appreciates his father but Ashok was not there now.
In between many things happens, but mostly the novel deals with subject of diaspora. It shows the problems of immigrants. Immigrants here don’t understand where they actually belong. When they are in other country they refer as Others and when they are in home country they again refer as someone who are different from them. It also deals with conflict between two different generations.
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“The Namesake” is the first novel by American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It was originally a novel published in The New Yorker and was later expanded to a full-length novel. It is moving between events in Calcutta, Boston, and New York City, the novel examines the nuances involved with being caught between two conflicting cultures with highly distinct religious, social, and ideological differences.
This novel describes the life of Ganguli family and mostly the life of Gogol. It is about differences between culture and generation. There is a reason why Ashok and Ashima, father and mother od Gogol and Sonia has named their son Gogol. Ashok was travelling in the train and that train met an accident at that time, Ashok has the pages of author Nikolai Gogol’s book and that is the reason he has been saved. But Gogol fails to understand this. As he grows he started disliking his name and also started remaining away from the house. When he got in to the university he changed his name as Nikhil. Behind this act he has his own reasons. The name Gogol is making him different from others, he has been tolerated so many teasing because of this and that is why he choose to change the name.
As novel proceeds, there were so many deaths, but the death of Ashok has most effected Ashima and Gogol. Ashima is changed now as now she don’t wish to go back to India. Now she don’t has so many desires. Gogol at the end when his father is not there, he learns about the story behind his name Gogol. He appreciates his father but Ashok was not there now.
In between many things happens, but mostly the novel deals with subject of diaspora. It shows the problems of immigrants. Immigrants here don’t understand where they actually belong. When they are in other country they refer as Others and when they are in home country they again refer as someone who are different from them. It also deals with conflict between two different generations.
Thank you.
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