This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.

"Follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting...

With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake,...

Aclamada por la cr�itica, nominada en las diez mejores listas del a�no y ganadora del Premio William C. Morris, El rey serpiente es la historia de tres adolescentes que se encuentran a s�i mismos, y entre ellos, mientras esperan graduarse de la escuela secundaria con la esperanza de dejar atr�as un peque�no pueblo de Tennessee. Dill no es el ni�no m�as popular en su escuela secundaria rural de Tennessee. Despu�es de que su padre cay�o...