The Namesake: A Portrait of the Film

by Mira Nair

Original essays and glorious photography, stunningly designed in this unique moviebook from the director of Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair--a Fox Searchlight release.

In her essay "Writing and Film," the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri writes about the experience of seeing her novel "transposed" from paper to film. "Its essence remains, but it inhabits a different realm and must, like a transposed piece of music, conform to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557047413
• ISBN13: 9781557047410
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Newmarket Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 10.9"