That character's birth name was inspired by his father's survival of a train wreck while reading a book of Russian literature.
This author wrote a story in which a translator loses a black sweater while tryingon clothes while on vacation. That story, The Exchange, was originally written inItalian. In a novel, this author wrote of a pair of brothers who get caught sneaking intothe (+) Tollyclub golf course. One of those brothers studies in Rhode Island while theother is killed as part of the Naxalite movement. This creator of Subhash and Udayan wrote another novel in which the protagonist divorces (*) Moushumi. That protagonist, as an architecture student at Yale, legally changed his name to Nikhil. That character's birth name was inspired by his father's survival of a train wreck while reading a book of Russian literature. For ten points, name this author of The Lowland who wrote of Ashoke and Gogol Ganguli in The Namesake.
This author wrote a story in which a translator loses a black sweater while tryingon clothes while on vacation.
Jhumpa Lahiri