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El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)

  • Jhumpa Lahiri

3.19

21 ratings

Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited values it represents. Determined to live a life far removed from that of his parents, Gogol sets off on his own path only to discover that the search for identity depends on much more than a name.

Genres

  • Alienación (Psicología social)
  • Alienation (Social psychology)
  • Appreciation
  • Asimilación cultural
  • Assimilation (Sociology)
  • Children of immigrants
  • East Indian Americans
  • Estadounidenses de India Oriental
  • Ficción
  • Fiction
  • Hijos de inmigrantes
  • Jóvenes (Hombres)
  • Novela hogareña
  • Young men
  • Bildungsromans
  • Massachusetts, fiction
  • Fiction, coming of age
  • Fiction, family life
  • Asian americans, fiction
  • Large type books
  • Fiction, family life, general
  • Jóvenes (Varones)
  • Novela
  • Art appreciation
  • Domestic fiction
  • Sociology
  • Indian Americans
  • Assimilation
  • Alienation
  • Social psychology
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • Appreciationgogolʹ, nikolaĭ vasilʹevich , 1809-1852
  • Gogolʹ, nikolaĭ vasilʹevich , 1809-1852
  • Young men--fiction
  • East indian americans--fiction
  • Children of immigrants--fiction
  • Assimilation (sociology)--fiction
  • Alienation (social psychology)--fiction
  • Fiction / literary
  • Ps3562.a316 n36 2019
  • 813/.54
  • Fic019000
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About the author

  • Jhumpa Lahiri

    born 1967

    3.55

    80 ratings · 42 works

Editions

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    HarperCollins India

  • Edition cover

    Salamandra

    Aug 24, 2021

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    Random House Audio

    Aug 27, 2013

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    Harper Perennial

    2006

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1st Mariner Books ed.

Houghton Mifflin

2004

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    mariner books

    2006

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    Mariner Books

    December 11, 2006

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    Flamingo

    2004

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    Houghton Mifflin

    2003

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    Mariner Books

    September 1, 2004

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    Unabridged edition

    RH Audio

    August 1, 2006

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    Wheeler Pub.

    2003

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    Houghton Mifflin

    September 16, 2003

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    1a ed.

    Emecé Editores

    2004

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    Mariner Books

    Jun 04, 2019

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    Tra edition

    Emece Editores

    March 30, 2007

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    Emece Editores

    September 2005

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    Mehta Publishing House

    2017

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    Houghton Mifflin Co

    2003-01-01

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    HarperPerennial

    Jan 01, 2007

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    2004

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2004

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    Zondervan

    2005

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

    2004

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2014

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    Large print ed.

    W. F. Howes

    2004

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    HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

    2004