And in fleshing out the most tortured character in the book, Internet whistle-blower Andreas Wolf, Franzen’s narrative gets bogged down in lengthy ruminations on the Internet and its perils. Franzen’s large-scale exploration of ideological purity and compromise feels a tad déjà vu (see Freedom, above). No one who loves Franzen’s books will regret reading this one.īut for me it ultimately wasn’t as satisfying as his last two novels. The wisdom and insights are often bracing, the writing punctuated by nifty metaphors (sex for one of the title character is “a tasty fish with so many small bones”). And like its predecessors, it demonstrates the author’s continued fixation on how messed-up families thwart their children’s lives - in the world and in coupledom. Like the two earlier books, Purity marries characters of lifelike quirkiness with up-to-the-minute social commentary. Now, having been dubbed “Great American Novelist” on the cover of Time magazine and then weathering five years of backlash, the singularly ambitious author is back with another Big Idea title, Purity. But in both books, Jonathan Franzen used those concepts brilliantly to take down the American Dream, millennial version. Lesser writers could easily look silly choosing titles such as The Corrections or Freedom, with the burden of expectation and risk of perceived pomposity such words carry.
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Like Gogol’s mother, who remained loyal to her husband throughout her life. The story also portrays the concepts of fidelity and infidelity in marriage. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri’s First Novel. And Gogol’s own quandary regarding his name and identity. Like about the protagonist’s father and his early years in the United States of America, or about the struggle of an Indian housewife to accept her new life in a different nation. But the story also revolves around several people and their lives. Though the novel’s protagonist is Gogol, who was named after the Russian author Nikolai Gogol by his father. The Namesake is the tale of a Bengali immigrant family from India and their life far away in America. I’ve also read and written about that book, and you can also read my review of it here: Interpreter Of Maladies Book Review. The author of the novel also wrote another book with the title “Interpreter of Maladies,” for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Be it the newly wed Indian Bengali immigrant couple in America, their own relationship, parenthood, and the lives of their foreign-born children. Jhumpa Lahiri, in her novel, The Namesake, portrays the lives of several people within a single story. Her mother sends her a letter telling that her father proposes to live on her Kirrin Island for some time in order to finish some of his scientific work. If it had not allowed this, it is quiet certain that George would not have gone to boarding school. George’s school allowed the students to keep their own pet. The four went to boarding school, Anne and George in one and Julian and Dick in the other. This novel is another adventure that the five had during their holidays. The five of them had had many happy times together. He was so friendly and loving, so lively and amusing, and he had shared so very much adventures with them all. He was a big scruffy brown mongrel dog, with a ridiculously long tail, and a wide mouth that really seemed to smile. Timothy was George’s dog, whom she loved with all her heart. She wore curly hair short and had gleaming blue eyes. Georgina, or I’d rather call her George, always wanted to be a boy instead. The four detectives – George, Anne, Julian and Dick solve many mysteries together, and of course not forgetting their beloved companion and pet Timothy. The Famous Five is a fictional series written by Enid Blyton. BOOK REVIEW: The Famous Five #6- Five on Kirrin Island Again |