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The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781615585151 (161558515X)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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Feminism in Cold Storage
Feminism in Cold Storage rated it
0.0 The Namesake
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...
Bücher, Bücher, 100000 Bücher
Bücher, Bücher, 100000 Bücher rated it
2.0 The Namesake
1.5 stars. I didn't want to give it the same rating as the CC books but I was still bored as hell.
Nicole Reads
Nicole Reads rated it
3.0 [REVIEW] The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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...
sarah
sarah rated it
2.0 Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake
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...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
2.0 The Namesake: A Novel
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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