The Book Of Salt by Monique Truong

In a compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indochina to Paris, the Vietnamese cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating story-Paris, 1934. Binh has accompanied his employers to the station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear- will he go with his 'Mesdames', stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Binh fled his homeland in disgrace, leaving behind his malevolent charlatan of a father and his self-sacrificing mother. For five years, he has been the personal cook at the famous apartment on the rue de Fleurs. Binh is a lost soul, an exile and an alien, a man of musings, memories and possibly lies- Tastes, oceans, sweat, tears - The Book of Salt is a an inspired novel about food and exile, love and betrayal.

Publisher:	Vintage
Year:	2004
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780099455455
Condition:	Fair
Description:	Ex Library. Ex library with stamps and inserts on endpages and a stamp on the top edge of the page block. Pages tanning, cover a bit faded, otherwise good.

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SKU: 1598215
Location: Fiction