'The Namesake' is a famous novel by which Indian-American author?
Jhumpa Lahiri
'The Namesake' (2003) is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, the Indian-American author who is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the short-story collection 'Interpreter of Maladies' (1999).
The novel follows the Ganguli family, immigrants from Calcutta to the United States, and explores themes of identity, cultural assimilation, and the meaning of names. It was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name directed by Mira Nair.
Quick distinction of distractors:
(B) Arundhati Roy – 'The God of Small Things' (1997).
(C) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – 'The Mistress of Spices', 'The Palace of Illusions'.
(D) Kiran Desai – 'The Inheritance of Loss' (2006).
Hence the correct answer is Jhumpa Lahiri.
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