The Washington Post, September 14th, 2003
THE NAMESAKE By Jhumpa Lahiri Houghton Mifflin. 291 pp. $24 Short story writer Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel, The Namesake, continues the explorations she began in her Pulitzer-Prize winning collection, The Interpreter of Maladies. In many respects, the novel represents an expansion of the last story in the collection, a quiet knockout called "The Third and Final Continent," in which a Bengali immigrant looks back on his first years in America. At the uplifting close of this story, the narrator allows himself a single moment of pride. "I know my achievement is quite ordinary," he says. "Still, t...
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