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The Namesake (2003) is the debut novel by British-American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It was originally published in The New Yorker and was later expanded to a full-length novel. It explores many of the same emotional and cultural themes as Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize -winning short story collection Interpreter of Maladies .
[9] Correctly or incorrectly, his initial works are sometimes grouped with the kitchen sink artists as well as the "Angry Young Men". [7] Another novel, A Fairy Tale of New York, provided the title of the song "Fairytale of New York". In March 2007, Donleavy was the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. [10]
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (Japanese: 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい, Hepburn: Sanjūsai made Dōtei Da to Mahōtsukai ni Nareru rashii) is a Japanese boys' love (BL) manga series by Yuu Toyota.
The Saga of Tanya the Evil, known in Japan as Yōjo Senki (幼女戦記, lit. The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl), is a Japanese light novel series written by Carlo Zen and illustrated by Shinobu Shinotsuki.
First Appearance: Volume 1 Chapter 9: "Black Queen" First making her appearance in Volume 1 Chapter 9: "Black Queen", Kuwata Konomi was a doctor specializing in amputations, thought to be heartless by many, earning her the nickname 'Black Queen' in the medical world. She is engaged to Rock (referred to as Makube Rokuro in the TV series ...
By September 2016, the light novel had sold around 1,029,000 copies. [2] In the second week in September 2016, the novel had sold around 112,000 more copies. [3] After the wide release of the film adaptation in August 2016, the novel reached the top place in Oricon's weekly bunkobon sales charts for three consecutive weeks. [4]
The Namesake was inspired by her maternal uncle, William Silbert Boak, who died in the Civil War. [2] For that reason, it has been deemed 'one of Cather's most autobiographical fictions'. [3] The short story has been linked to Willa Cather's poem, The Namesake, which also broaches the subject of the Civil War, told from the perspective of a ...