The Namesake
Ashoke Ganguli
In terms of the namesake; choose ONE character.
In terms of the namesake; choose ONE character.
The husband of Ashima and the father of Gogol and Sonia, Ashoke earns his doctorate from MIT and works as a professor in the Boston area while his children grow up. He was in a horrible train accident as a young man while he was reading a work by the Russian author Gogol, and names his son after that author.
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