The Book of Salt - Hardcover

Truong, Monique

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618304002 ISBN 13: 9780618304004

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2003

Synopsis

Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam, his years as a galley hand at sea, and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.

About this title

Review:

"It is beautifully written, a cooking up of love and self to feed the devouring appetites of Gerturde Stein and Alice B. Toklas that is nothing less than a masterpiece of delicate and -naturally- existentialist hedonism." (Andro Linklater The Spectator)

"The Book of Salt reminded me of how thrilling really fine writing can be, and how rarely one sees it" (Sarah Waters)

From the Publisher:

A sharply subtle literary feast: the Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas reveals his fascinating story in a compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indo China to Paris in the ‘30s

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0618304002
• ISBN 13: 9780618304004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464