2017 Reading Challenge - A Book about an immigrant or refugee
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Guess what its Thursday and you know what that means
A new review this time for the category A Book about an immigrant or refugee
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
"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 PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.
In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.".
In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.".
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I´ll give it a 6 out of 10
I really liked the whole story and everything but and that is a huge but for me personally I had to force my way through this book from like the middle and almost did not even finish it...sooo that cant be anything better...
Thats a really short statement isn´t it... well you know...what could I say...
Its a nice book, its well written and I like the characters and the story, I just...well as soon as I have to force myself to finish a book I know I do at least not enjoy it enough!
But it a lovely book and if you like this kind of book/story you should definitely try it ;)
Lets talk about it ^^ what do you think about this book?
Oh an btw there is a movie ^^ I´ve not seen it...did you?
Thats a really short statement isn´t it... well you know...what could I say...
Its a nice book, its well written and I like the characters and the story, I just...well as soon as I have to force myself to finish a book I know I do at least not enjoy it enough!
But it a lovely book and if you like this kind of book/story you should definitely try it ;)
Lets talk about it ^^ what do you think about this book?
Oh an btw there is a movie ^^ I´ve not seen it...did you?
And as always here are some more inspirations ^^
Let me know if they are helpfull :)
Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-yong
Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
Let me know if they are helpfull :)
Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-yong
Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery by Abby Sher
East in Eden by Izabela Shopova
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Zoya Phan, Damien Lewis
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. Bernstein
East in Eden by Izabela Shopova
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Zoya Phan, Damien Lewis
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. Bernstein
Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe’s Frontiers edited by Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh
The Politics of Immigration: Contradictions of the Liberal State by James Hampshire
Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent by Matthew Carr
Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung
get some more inspiration here
Which book did you read for this category?
Tell me, I really want to know ;)
Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent by Matthew Carr
Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung
get some more inspiration here
Which book did you read for this category?
Tell me, I really want to know ;)
With lots of love
♥♥♥
Verena
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