![]() ![]() In the hospital, Ashima remembers the first time she met Ashoke during their arranged marriage ceremony. Ashoke believes Gogol saved his life in a train accident in India seven years ago. In 1968, Ashima gives birth to their first child, whom they name Gogol after the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. The edition of the novel used for this guide is by Mariner Books, e-book edition, 2004.Īshima and Ashoke Ganguli are Indians from West Bengal who immigrate to America in 1967, so Ashoke can attend his PhD at MIT. She has been awarded the National Humanities Medal and teaches at Princeton University. ![]() She is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She writes in English and Italian, and her style is often characterized by simple, descriptive sentences with little dialogue. ![]() The novel’s author, Jhumpa Lahiri, was born in 1967 London to a family from the Indian state of West Bengal and grew up in America. ![]()
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