The Resource The namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
The namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Resource Information
The item The namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Now a major motion picture! The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His young bride is far less malleable. Isolated, desperately missing her large family back in India, she will never be at peace with this new world. Soon after they arrive in Cambridge, their first child is born, a boy. According to Indian custom, the child will be given two names: an official name, to be bestowed by the great-grandmother, and a pet name to be used only by family. But the letter from India with the child's official name never arrives, and so the baby's parents decide on a pet name to use for the time being. Ashoke chooses a name that has particular significance for him: on a train trip back in India several years earlier, he had been reading a short story collection by one of his most beloved Russian writers, Nikolai Gogol, when the train derailed in the middle of the night, killing almost all the sleeping passengers onboard. Ashoke had stayed awake to read his Gogol, and he believes the book saved his life. His child will be known, then, as Gogol
- Language
- eng
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 10:09:45
- Isbn
- 9781415944769
- Label
- The namesake
- Title
- The namesake
- Statement of responsibility
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Subject
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- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Children of immigrants -- Fiction
- Coming of age
- Downloadable audiobooks
- East Indian Americans -- Fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852 -- Appreciation -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Now a major motion picture! The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His young bride is far less malleable. Isolated, desperately missing her large family back in India, she will never be at peace with this new world. Soon after they arrive in Cambridge, their first child is born, a boy. According to Indian custom, the child will be given two names: an official name, to be bestowed by the great-grandmother, and a pet name to be used only by family. But the letter from India with the child's official name never arrives, and so the baby's parents decide on a pet name to use for the time being. Ashoke chooses a name that has particular significance for him: on a train trip back in India several years earlier, he had been reading a short story collection by one of his most beloved Russian writers, Nikolai Gogol, when the train derailed in the middle of the night, killing almost all the sleeping passengers onboard. Ashoke had stayed awake to read his Gogol, and he believes the book saved his life. His child will be known, then, as Gogol
- Accompanying matter
- libretto or text
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Interest level
- UG
- LC call number
- PS3562.A316
- LC item number
- N36 2007ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Sarita Choudhury
- Reading level
- 7.2
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Choudhury, Sarita
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich
- Young men
- East Indian Americans
- Children of immigrants
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Coming of age
- Massachusetts
- Target audience
- general
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Link
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 10:09:45
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- unspecified
- Carrier category code
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- zu
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- ocn144553896
- Dimensions
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- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781415944769
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- Stock number
- 7ECA3C7A-7514-46C6-AC7E-F7F2C15E505D
- System details
-
- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 146075 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Link
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 10:09:45
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- unspecified
- Carrier category code
-
- zu
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- ocn144553896
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781415944769
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- Stock number
- 7ECA3C7A-7514-46C6-AC7E-F7F2C15E505D
- System details
-
- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 146075 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Children of immigrants -- Fiction
- Coming of age
- Downloadable audiobooks
- East Indian Americans -- Fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852 -- Appreciation -- Fiction
Genre
Library Locations
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