The Namesake: A Novel Amazon.com Review: Any talk of The Namesake--Jhumpa Lahiri's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, Interpreter of Maladies--must begin with a name: Gogol Ganguli. Born to an Indian academic and his wife, Gogol is afflicted from birth with a name [... more]
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The Home and the World (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) complex moral tale: This book is largely a parable about the conflicts in Bengal in the early twentieth century. Tagore uses a triangle of husband and wife and outside suitor. Bimala, the wife is a sort of central figure as the novel largely revolves [... more]
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The Forbidden Daughter A Little Inspid and Corny: I chose to read this book because of its ostensibly controversial subject matter. I expected it to be a serious narrative concerning selective abortion. The book did touch upon it in a very simplistic way; however the novel [... more]
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