MAN - Softcover

THUY, KIM

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846689961 ISBN 13: 9781846689963

Verlag: Clerkenwell Press, 2014

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Praise for Ru:

'Kim Thúy writes with equal delicacy and candor about a childhood marked by horrifying brutality, and the pleasures of ordinary peace. A brave and moving book, bringing lucid insight both to the costs of violence, and elusive processes of psychic survival

(Eva Hoffman)

This is an exemplary autobiographical novel. A tragic journey described in a keen, sensitive and perfectly understated voice (Governor General's Literary Award jury citation)

Thúy's stories are poetic and powerful (James Smart Guardian 2012-06-16)

Striking (Claire Armistead Guardian 2012-08-25)

Rendered in exquisite, unsentimental prose. Kim Thúy is a born storyteller, but she rewrites the traditional immigrant narrative in a completely new way, makes it whole and wondrous once more. (Jury Citation for the Gillier Prize Shortlist)

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Mãn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mãn a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal.
Thrown into a new world, Mãn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion, time and place, and even bring her customers to tears.
Mãn is a mystery - her name means 'perfect fulfillment', yet she and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, and Mãn discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair.
Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Mãn is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.

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• Verlag: Clerkenwell Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1846689961
• ISBN 13: 9781846689963
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152