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May 5, 2016 · The Namesake Movie Review: Critics Rating: stars, click to give your rating/review,Mira Nair's film is a Haiku about Hindustan: minimalist, magical and intensely moving.
Mar 9, 2007 · The Namesake. Directed by Mira Nair. Drama. 2h 2m. By Stephen Holden. March 9, 2007. Color is the stuff of life in the movies of Mira Nair, the Indian-born director whose newest film, “The ...
The Namesake is the story of two generations of the Gangulis, a family of Indian immigrants to the United States. When we first meet Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli they are living in a small apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about to welcome their first child into the world. The young couple met through an arranged marriage in Calcutta, India ...
The Namesake Full Book Summary. The novel begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1968. Ashima Ganguli, expecting a child, makes a snack for herself in the kitchen of her apartment, which she shares with her husband, Ashoke. The two met in Calcutta, where their marriage was arranged by their parents. Ashoke is a graduate student in electrical ...
Books. The Namesake. Jhumpa Lahiri. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - Fiction - 291 pages. "Hugely appealing."--. People Magazine. "An exquisitely detailed family saga."--. Entertainment Weekly. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home.
Book Summary. The Namesake covers five primary periods in the life of the Ganguli family: 1. From India to America. Chapters 1 and 2 narrate the story of the Gangulis’ early days in America. Ashoke decided to move to Boston and begin graduate school after barely surviving a catastrophic train accident in India.
The Namesake fits some definitions of a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age novel, with Gogol as the protagonist who grows up over the course of the story. Although our view into the life of Ashoke and Ashima makes them central to the novel, it is Gogol who becomes the main protagonist, and whose development we follow most….
