современная зарубежная литература

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homeland…Jhumpa Lahiri’s prose is beautifully measured, subtle and sober, and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid, but this work is rich in observational detail, evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here), and full of emotional pull and reverberation.

приключения

фэнтези

боевое фэнтези

книги о приключениях

героическое фэнтези

спасение мира

романтика

эльфы

приключенческие боевики

магия и волшебство

Interpreter of Maladies

‘The Namesake’ is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America.'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes…'For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' – after his favourite writer.Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss…Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, ‘The Namesake’ is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, ‘Interpreter of Maladies’.

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русская классика

литература 19 века

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The Namesake

Senelė, sužinojusi, kad Ašima laukiasi, suvirpėjo iš džiaugsmo, jog galės pavadinti pirmąjį šeimos sahibą. Tad Ašima su Ašoku nu- sprendė duoti vaikui vardą vėliau, kai gaus jos laišką…
Tačiau laikas bėgo, o laiško iš Indijos nebuvo. Amerikos biurokratai pareikalavo nedelsiant pavadinti berniuką. Apimtas panikos, tėvas nusprendė duoti jam savo mėgstamo rašytojo – Gogolio vardą. Užaugintas Amerikos priemiestyje, bet auklėtas pagal indų tradicijas, Gogolis panoro atsikratyti nepatogaus vardo ir pasipriešinti savo tėvų puoselėjamoms vertybėms.
Elegantiškas, subtilus ir jaudinantis bengalų kilmės rašytojos Jhumpos Lahiri romanas Bendravardis plėtoja autorei itin svarbias imigrantų patirčių, kultūrų sankirtų, ryšio tarp skirtingų kartų temas. Su stebėtinu įžvalgumu ji pasakoja ne tik apie vaikui parenkamo vardo svarbą ir tėvų puoselėjamas viltis, bet ir apie tai, kaip lėtai ir kartais skausmingai atrandame patys save.