The Namesake: A Novel Cover:Paperback she begins a desperate search

she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold

Told in the voice of Korphe’s children

and monstrously self-absorbed

a classic education

The Namesake: A Novel Cover:Paperback she begins a desperate searchNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from a writer of uncommon elegance and poise. (The New York Times) Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn,