The Namesake
by Lahiri, JhumpaEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary
The New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of "Interpreter of Maladies", in a brand-new movie tie-in edition "The Namesake", Jhumpa Lahiri's remarkable debut novel, is a beautiful family portrait that has been hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "emotionally charged and deeply poignant." The Academy Award-nominated director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair) picked up a copy of the Mariner paperback for a trans-Atlantic flight; soon after finishing the novel, she was seized by a strong creative urge. "I immediately put two of my other films on the back burner and decided to first make The Namesake. It was an urgent feeling, and I dropped everything in my life to get down to making this film." Distributed by Fox Searchlight, the film is tentatively scheduled for late spring 2006. It stars Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) and was adapted by Sooni Taraporevala, with whom Nair previously collaborated on Mississippi Masala and the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!
Author Biography
Jhumpa Lahiri was born 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island. She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in English literature, and of Boston University, where she received an M.A. in English, M.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a bestseller both in the United States and abroad. In addition to the Pulitzer, it received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. The Namesake is Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
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