The Namesake

12 hrs. 18 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrator Andrey Leonov

Description

Ashok and Ashima Ganguly came to the United States from India with a dream of a better life. Materially, the couple succeeded, but they couldn’t accept the traditions of their new country with their hearts. Not so the younger generation: their grown-up children feel like one hundred percent Americans and don’t intend to follow the Indian customs their parents impose on them. What’s more, Ashok’s son hates his name—Gogol—which his father gave him as a sign of respect for the great Russian classic’s work. Becoming an adult, the young man changes the ridiculous name, but you can’t fool fate…

The famous Indian writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri raises timeless themes in the novel: relationships between fathers and children, the wandering of a young soul, the search for a life path, and the collision of different cultures.

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