Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Namesake |
| author | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| ISBN-10 | 0-006-55180-7 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-006-55180-5 |
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| date | 2018-Jun-21 |
Have you lived in a place with a totally different culture than your own? Lived, not just gone there for a holiday? This is what the story in this book is telling. Of a husband and wife moving from India to the US, and of their kids. Two kids, both born and raised in the US, but stuck in limbo. On the one hand they are raised with an Indian background, on the other hand, they are raised in and interact with a totally different culture on the outside. Where do they really belong? And also their parents, foreigners where they live, they gradually become kind of foreigner in their original country too. And they seem to have two faces, they kind of turn into different people when going back 'home' to India for vacation.
There is no big story or artfully constructed plot in this book. It's just about the life of a family, but with interesting insights. Insights, which many people might never stop to think about. I have first-hand experience living in a different culture for several years. But not as totally as in this book, which, in some places, made think me too.
