Word: lahiriã
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...penning the most terrifically clichéd novels of all, are also the most powerfully placed to guide the way out. Many Indian writers working in English live in the States or visit often, and they usually have the political freedom and socioeconomic means to innovate. Classmates in Jhumpa Lahiri??s creative-writing workshop at Boston University envied her for never having to cast about for topics, her own Bengali heritage lending her exotic source material every week; they should have criticized her for taking the easy path in merely penning realist snapshots of the immigrant lifestyle. Magical...
...become a writer in the face of societal pressures to pursue professional careers. Recently, the experiences of Indian immigrants have become a hot topic in literature. Last year Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri??s “Interpreter of Maladies” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri??s novel “The Namesake”—about a boy raised by Indian parents in America—opened...
...Namesake, Lahiri??s much anticipated sophomore effort and first novel, tells the story of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, newlyweds from Calcutta who immigrate to Cambridge in the sixties and begin life anew. When their son is born, the couple anxiously awaits a letter from a grandmother that will decide the infant’s name, but the letter never arrives...
This outcry is common in Lahiri??s work. For so many of her characters, the difficulty of acclimating to a new lifestyle, so different in attitude and custom from their own, is troubling. Thus naming Gogol in The Namesake becomes all-important; without his grandmother’s name, the child will be truly cut from his Bengali roots...
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