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The Namesake Author: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the ... more »
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I almost feel as if I should have given this book four stars, but I didn't because I dreaded reading it. It was an emotionally uncomfortable experience. However this is also part of the beauty of the book. The author so realistically portrays the conflicts that exist both within the Ganguli family and within the title character himself that the reader can't help but feel their frustrations, longings, and regrets.
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Amazing, amazing, amazing. The story, the characters, the gorgeous, lyrical, thoroughly relatable but always unexpected tone and style of this justly feted author... I can't even put into words how much I loved this book and what a powerful writer Jhumpa Lahiri is. Just... read it.
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This was a rich book with complex characters. The level of detail in their lives brings the reader to appreciate the environment as yet another character in the book.
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