The Namesake

Reviewing this book because of two reasons.
1.that it says on the cover that it has won the pulitzer prize.
2.Jhumpha Lahiri had been author I had come to like for the other book of short stories I had read and for the freshness of her writing style although the stories mostly talked about the Bengali diaspora.

On beginning this book,I had the realisation about the setting being the same as what I had already become familiar with from her other stories.But initially the narration had drawn me instantly and I couldnt put down the book after I started it.Talking of Ashima's marriage and life with Ashoke,the anticipation and expectation I had from the start was quite high.But it was not met.



Yes, Lahiri is an expert in turning simple words into colourful images but past the first few chapters the novel turned out to be nothing like how I expected it to be and throughout the novel the positive spark I was searched for was missing.Maybe Gogol returning to his senses in the end may have seemed a bit like that but it still wasn't what I was expecting

The transformation into film also didn't make much of an impact upon me .