その名にちなんで

Finished reading Jhumpa Lahiri's 'The Namesake' at my friend's recommendation (she'd read it in English but I read the translation by Takayoshi Ogawa). It's a story of an Indian immigrant couple, moved from Calcutta to Massachusetts and started a family there. I nodded about one thousand times while reading it. Those troubles and confusion in adjusting themselves to the new environment and in raising children in a different country are so familiar and similar to my own experiences. The book also describes so well how this couple's American born son felt about his parents' country/culture/religion while he himself didn't quite belong to yuppie New York.

友人に薦められてジュンパ・ラヒリの「その名にちなんで」を読みました（友人は英文のオリジナルを読んだそうですが、私が読んだのは小川高義による日本語訳）。インドからアメリカにやってきた家族の物語です。異国への適応、知らない土地でのはじめての子育て、そしてアメリカで外国籍の両親に育てられる（アメリカ生まれの）子供達の複雑な思いがとても上手に描かれていて、何度も何度も「そうだよね」とうなずきながら読みました。