She was easygoing, and he told her many secrets during the first few months but not about his bisexuality. He married his wife at his father’s behest, and he had liked her. Between the home land, and the adopted land of his parents, and between expectations, and his own reality.Īnd the author said - “I am who I am and that's who I am.” The Ukranian author Nikolai Gogol’s name was also the name of the character in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake. He wouldn’t give his name, but offers Gogol as a pseudonym. He also has trysts with men, passionate encounters but then comes back to his wife. On some rainy afternoons, he likes to hold his wife’s hands and watch the drops shatter on the ground.