In one story by this author, a boy tells a woman that the title word "means loving someone you don't know," leading her to break off her extramarital relationship with (*) Dev.
In one novel by this author, a man who is hiding in the water is shot and killed by paramilitary forces, leading his friend to propose marriage to the woman whom he impregnated. In that novel by this author, two friends drift apart as one joins the Naxalite Movement while the other prepares to attend graduate school in Rhode Island. In one story by this author, a boy tells a woman that the title word "means loving someone you don't know," leading her to break off her extramarital relationship with (*) Dev. In one novel by this author of The Lowland and "Sexy," a man gives his son the name Gogol after he survives a train accident in which he clutches a single page from "The Overcoat" in his hands. For 10 points, name this Bengali author of The Namesake and The Interpreter of Maladies.
In one novel by this author, a man who is hiding in the water is shot and killed by paramilitary forces, leading his friend to propose marriage to the woman whom he impregnated.
Jhumpa Lahiri 