The Namesake
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Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2003
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OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
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Unabridged
Street Date:
09/16/2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781415944769
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 7.2, 18 Points
Level 7.2, 18 Points
Lexile measure:
1140
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Jhumpa Lahiri. (2003). The Namesake. Unabridged Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jhumpa Lahiri. 2003. The Namesake. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2003.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jhumpa Lahiri. The Namesake. Unabridged Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2003.
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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.
Lahiri brings her enormous powers of description to her first novel, infusing scene after scene with profound emotional depth. Condensed and controlled, The Namesake covers three decades and crosses continents, all the while zooming in at very precise moments on telling detail, sensory richness, and fine nuances of character. - gradeLevels
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