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...
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...
Με αυτό το βιβλίο συμβαίνει το εξής : Διαβάζεις μια ιστορία απλή, γραμμένη σε μια γλώσσα που δείχνει να είναι επίσης απλή (σε καμία περίπτωση απλοϊκή, απλή όμως είναι με την έννοια ότι δεν έχει στόχο να σε εκβιάσει το θαυμασμό σου με διάφορες φραστικές φιγούρες). Από την πρώτη στιγμή όμως συνειδητοπ...
It always takes me a while to finish an adult book, whether it be good or bad. In this case, the book was actually good. Not a lot happens, I have to admit but the writing style is so beautiful, I kept coming back for more. The story line is pretty simple, in fact the whole book is simple but the wa...
4.5 stars. this book very nearly cracked me open. the writing is wonderful and it is just filled with feeling, overflowing with emotion. this book is not about the story (which is why i can't imagine how they made a movie of it) but is about so much more than the mundane events of daily life that...
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