همنام
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789647948623
Publisher: نشر ماهی
Pages no: 360
Edition language: Persian
This is a great story. It provides a compelling answer to the 400 year old question, "What's in a Name?" I had initially struggled with whether to make this a 3 or 4 star read but I realized that for as much as my own experience made the story not new for me, sitting down to write the review and see...
1.5 stars. I didn't want to give it the same rating as the CC books but I was still bored as hell.
Lovely prose by Ms. Lahiri. She had me connect with the characters, even the ones I really wanted to hate.I had a problem with The Namesake, I just don't know exactly what it was. Perhaps it was the nonexistent plot or the fact that the story was more bitter than sweet. It could be that I felt the n...
Lahiri is a talented writer, and her prose is smooth and readable without being oversimple. But this story was just uninteresting to me. Specifically, I didn't feel connected enough to Gogol, the main character, to really care what happened to him, and after a while the book became a chore and I see...
OK, just when did the present tense take over literary fiction? Because I want to know--it seems omnipresent these days. It's a cheap way, I guess, of imbuing a narrative with lyricism, but truly, it's wearing out its welcome with me--and is all the more noticeable and annoying when a book doesn't h...
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