I am through with Namesake.
I love these marathon sessions. One of my preferred ways to spend a weekend. Start off as soon as you get up. Take a break for breakfast and stuff the bedside with all the food and drinks you would need. When the lunch time comes and goes you would never know. A small break in the evening and then the last lap. Celebrate the completion before the day is over.
Different books will leave you in different states. The Namesake is a good book because it make you feel what some of the charachters are going through. And the way the author has taken the liberty to narrate the story from the point of view of different people is great. It starts of with Ashima (a bengali housewife pinning for her home in a new country) and easily shifts to Gogol(the next gen of expats torn between his country and the legacy of Indianness he carries) and other charachters like Ashoke(ashimas husband) and Moushami(Gogols wife...gen X woman and her view of life).
But each of these manage to strike a chord within you. So even if I would not term it a all time favourite as i did for Shantaram, I would certainly say it is a good book. There are no remarkable lines from the book I would remember but Ashima's sense of distance of her country/home and Gogol's final understanding of his parents is something that I am sure would crop up right times in my mind.
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