The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America.'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes'For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy

It received high critical acclaim and won the author the Sahitya Akademi award as well as the Ananda Puraskar

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