"The Namesake" a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri

Have you heard about "The Namesake" it's both the novel and now the film. Jhumpa Lahiri, a distinguished writer,an Indian American author based in New York city, was the year 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for The Interpreter of Maladies, had taken long strides with the publication of the novel "The Namesake".  She won critical acclaim for its "grace, acuity and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America. Jhumpa's flamboyance as a novelist is seen in the poignant portrayals of her characters. I like her high qualities in her novels which are search for individuality, loss of sense of belonging, torment of severance, and cruel demands of larger society that seek definitions. Indeed this shows her awareness with the lives of expatriates. She is known for the award winning short stories of Indian absorption in America, where simply you're bound to love "The Namesake". The New York Times aptly describes it as "A debut novel that is as assured and eloquents as the work of a long time master of the craft."

What is all about "The Namesake": "The Namesake" is a big portrayal of cross cultural, multigenerational story of a Hindu -Bengali family's journey to self- acceptance in Boston. The multiplicities of the immigrant occurrence and foreignness, too many embroilments of lifestyles ,cultural bewilderment, the conflicts of assimilation, the tousled ties between generations .There is an Indian family which is totally tattered between the haul of regarding traditions and the American way of life. An anecdote of love, isolation and poignant catastrophe with an incredible eye for feature and sarcastic scrutiny.

Story takes you to 1967 where a Bengali family came to America just after their arranged marriage.Ashoka and Ashima are the characters name who are totally tied to their roots, traditions and customs, They settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ashoka the husband of Ashima is an engineer and a busy man where ashima his wife pines for her family always They were blessed with a son soon and he was named by his parents "Gogol" after the second name of a Russian writer Nikoloi Gogol. This writer inspired Ashoka in his young days."Gogol" knew that he was suffering with the burden of his heritage and of this strange an anomalous, antic name too. Gogol where he staggers along the first generation path spotted with disagreeing loyalities, comic detours and wrenching love affairs author Jhumpa lahiri brings great sympathy to him. She presented a penetrating insight combining the value of the names. The power of the names and searching our identities are revealed brilliantly by the author. Gogol's story is actually a very simple one, as lived by many multi-cultural citizens of America.

Soul of the story:
Gogol is a character who is always surrounded by the views of his immigrant parents, to their traditions to his own enduring struggle for comfort in his own skin.
This movie impressed me somewhere though I belong to the same traditional background but we are in 2007 and this story is from 1967 so I think now it's a story when in earlier stage people from different land started coming to America.

  From novel to the film :

FoxSearch light :"THE NAMESAKE" you can get more about this movie.Recently we saw this movie in USA..It's in English Language..I recommend this movie to my Gather friends ..watch this movie and you will add more in your account about the immigrant sentiments and emotions.

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