Te Ingoa
Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
304 p.
ISBN-13: 9780618485222


whakarāpopototanga 
Ka whakarei ake a Jhumpa Lahiri i ngā kaupapa i waiho ai tana kohinga hei pukapuka hokohoko nui o te ao—te wheako manene, te taupatupatu o ngā ahurea, ngā pakanga o te whakaurunga, me te mea tino whakamīharo, ngā hononga honohono i waenga i ngā whakatipuranga. I konei anō ka whakaatu a Lahiri i tana pa matatau mō ngā taipitopito tino tika—te wā poto, te hurihanga o te kupu—e whakatuwhera ana i ngā ao katoa o te kare ā-roto..

Te Ingoa ka tangohia te whānau Ganguli mai i tō rātou oranga tuku iho i Calcutta tae atu ki tō rātou huringa uaua ki te noho hei Amerikana.

Whai muri i tā rāua marena kua whakaritea, ka noho tahi a Ashoke rāua ko Ashima Ganguli ki Cambridge, Massachusetts. He miihini ia, ā, kāore a Ashoke i te tino māharahara ki te urutau i tana wahine, e ātete ana ki ngā mea katoa o Amerika, ā, e hiahia ana ki tōna whānau. I te whānautanga o tā rāua tama, ko te mahi whakaingoa i a ia e whakaatu ana i ngā hua uaua o te kawe mai i ngā tikanga tawhito ki te ao hou.

I tapaina a Gogol Ganguli ki te ingoa o tētahi kaituhi Rūhia e ōna mātua Īnia hei maumaharatanga mō tētahi aituā i ngā tau kua pahure ake nei, ko te mōhio anake a Gogol Ganguli ko ia te tangata e mamae ana i te taumahatanga o tōna taonga tuku iho me tōna ingoa rerekē, tauhou hoki. He nui te aroha o Lahiri ki a Gogol i a ia e takahi ana i te ara o te whakatupuranga tuatahi kua kapi i ngā pono taupatupatu, ngā ara whakakatakata, me ngā whanaungatanga aroha whakapouri.

Mā te mārama hohonu, e whakakitea ana e ia te mana tautuhi o ngā ingoa me ngā tumanakohanga i homai e ō tātou mātua ki a tātou, tae atu ki te huarahi e āta haere ai tātou, i ētahi wā he mamae, ki te tautuhi i a tātou anō.

te New York Times kua whakanui i a Lahiri hei "kaituhi he tino ataahua, he māia hoki." Te Ingoa he pukapuka tuakiri kua whakatikatikaina, kua piripono, ā, kua hohonu te wairua.Mai i te kaiwhakaputa.)