![]() ![]() ![]() Lahiri is emblematic of a new flourishing generation of Indian American writers which seems to be taking over from pioneering figures such as Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni or Bharati Mukherjee and broadening the experience of migration to that of the second - generation members of the “desi” community, who are caught between their Indian descent and their American birth.Ģ The Namesake traces the tortuous route from childhood to early adulthood of Gogol Ganguli, an American of Indian descent who is condemned to suffer the ridicule of a “pet name” turned “good name” in a place where such distinctions do not exist. “Our inheritance was inscribed in no testament”ġ The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut novel, was much awaited by her readership after her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. ![]()
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