The Person of the Same Name (original Movie of the Same Name)
About This Novel
Name is a spell that connects destiny, telling the American dream of an Indian immigrant family; a hardcover version of Juppa Lahiri's first novel, a sensation in the world literary world alongside Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The novel tells the life experience of Gogol, an Indian boy born in the United States, from childhood, adolescence to youth. Gogol's father's name is Ashoke, which means "the one who transcends sorrow"; his mother's name is Ashima, which means "the infinite woman". When Ashoke was young, he suffered a train derailment and survived because of a copy of "The Collected Novels of Gogol". For this reason, when his son was born in the United States, he named his son "Gogol." Gogol has the diligence of an Indian immigrant child and the rebellious personality of an American teenager. As an adult, he has a successful career and has a girlfriend from an upper-class New York family. He wanted to break out of the Indian circle, but in the end he married an Indian girl... After experiencing life and death, reunion and separation, between the East and the West, everyone in the story was torn, struggling, escaping and returning between the two cultures. Where is the real destination?
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