THE NAMESAKE; A Novel / Jhumpa Lahiri by Lahiri, Jhumpa - 2003

Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, golden quarter cloth with light gold lettering over light yellow boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a colorful swirling lotus by Philippe Lardy, 291 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize! National Book Award Finalist; Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. <br/><br/>"SPLENDID . . . Lahiri handles her characters without leaving any fingerprints."--The New York Times Book Review.<br/><br/>NEAR FINE CONDITION: SIGNED by the PULITZER PRIZE--winning AUTHOR! Tight, bright, clean cloth. Small ink note at top of front endpaper opposite half title. Dust jacket is unclipped, clean, bright with slight rubbing, soil on back panel, and minor abbraisions and bumps at upper right corners.<br/><br/>"Masterly, suspenseful, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga; and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers."--jacket.<br/><br/>A tale of two brothers from Calcutta, whose paths diverge radically, and the family problems that ensue.