The Namesake by Lahiri, Jhumpa

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Mariner Books, 2006-01-01. paperback. Acceptable. 5x1x8.

Mariner Books, 2006-01-01. paperback. Good. 5x1x8.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Mariner Books. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

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Mariner Books. Good to Very Good. 2007. Trade Paperback. 0618733965 Pages are clean and tight. Bookstore's stamped address appears on the inside of the rear cover. .

Mariner Books, 2006. paperback. Very Good. Ships within 24 hours!Trade paperback, tight pages, clean text, general shelf wear, some tanning.