"Unabridged audiobook." . . "Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852 Fiction." . . "Free Library of Philadelphia. Central Library. Foundation Offices." . . "FICTION / General" . . . . "Bildungsromans" . "Bildungsromans"@en . . "The Namesake : a Novel" . . . . "The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.--Container."@en . . . . . . . "The story follows two generations of the Ganguli family from Calcutta to Cambridge to Boston as they struggle first to assimilate and then to retain their heritage." . . . . "Domestic fiction" . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Audiobooks, Fiction"@en . . . . . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . "The namesake a novel"@en . "The namesake a novel" . . . . . . . "Now a major motion picture! The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His young bride is far less malleable. Isolated, desperately missing her large family back in India, she will never be at peace with this new world. Soon after they arrive in Cambridge, their first child is born, a boy. According to Indian custom, the child will be given two names: an official name, to be bestowed by the great-grandmother, and a pet name to be used only by family. But the letter from India with the child's official name never arrives, and so the baby's parents decide on a pet name to use for the time being. Ashoke chooses a name that has particular significance for him: on a train trip back in India several years earlier, he had been reading a short story collection by one of his most beloved Russian writers, Nikolai Gogol, when the train derailed in the middle of the night, killing almost all the sleeping passengers onboard. Ashoke had stayed awake to read his Gogol, and he believes the book saved his life. His child will be known, then, as Gogol."@en . . . "A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life."@en . . . . . "The namesake [sound recording]" . "Namesake [podcast]" . . . . . . . . "Takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Follows Gogol as he stumbles along a first-generation path strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. Reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves." . "[This novel]: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. [The author] displays her deft touch for the perfect detail - the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase - that opens whole worlds of emotion. [The novel] takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. [The author] brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.-Dust jacket." . . "When an Indian family immigrates to America, their son must come to terms with his unusual name, American culture and family heritage."@en . . . . . . . . . "The Namesake journeys with the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in India through their fraught transformation into Americans."@en . . . "Audiobooks"@en . . "Audiobooks" . . . . . . . "The namesake : a novel" . "Jhumpa Lahiri: The namesake" . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . "The namesake"@en . . "The namesake" . . "Jhumpa Lahiri received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Agni, and Story Quarterly, as well as in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. The Namesake, her first novel, \"beautifully enriches and expands on her signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and the tangled ties between generations.\"" . . "Audiobooks collection Fiction." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Appreciation Fiction." . . "Massachusetts" . . . . "Alienation (Socil psychology) Fiction." . .