Presented By:

Sarita Yadav
Roll No 54

Why I chose the book?

The author is a well known young writer.

A film adaptation has been done.

About The Author

Jhumpa Lahiri

born to Bengali parents (Amar Lahiri & Tapti Lahiri),who emigrated from
India, in London in 1967 and later on moved to the United States

Notable works -Interpreter of Maladies (1999),The Namesake (2003),

Unaccustomed Earth (2008), The Lowland (2013)

Awards (2000) Pulitzer Prize for fiction, O. Henry Award, the

PEN/Hemingway Award, The New Yorker Best Debut of the Year Award

translated into 29 languages and became an international bestseller.

major theme Problems of the immigrants and the disconnection between

first and second generation United States immigrants

Main Characters

The Ganguly Family

Ashoke Ganguly & Ashima Ganguly

experiences and relationships of flawed, displaced and lonely individuals living in an alien
country, delve into the greyer shades of migration.

Gogol(Nikhil) Ganguly (protagonist)-portrayed as a character who feels a loss over a

culture he inherits, but never truly owns.

Sonia Ganguly

Analysis of the book

Literary fiction focused on relationships or individual psychologies.

Doesnt focus on a particular period or event in the main characters lives,

but rather the grand, sweeping arc of a generation.

Written the book in present tense.

reveals not only the defining power of the names, the means by which we
slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves in this fine novel of
identity

expectations bestowed upon us by our parents