Following on the Giller Prize-nominated and Governor General's Literary Award-winning success of Ru, Kim Thy's latest novel is a triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined. Mn 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 Mn a husband--a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Mn 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. Mn 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 Mn discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair. Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Mn is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.
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Born in Saigon in 1968, Kim Thúy left Vietman with the boat people at the age of ten and settled with her family in Quebec. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, restaurant owner and food commentator on radio and television. She lives in Montreal and devotes herself to writing.
SHEILA FISCHMAN is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec. She lives in Montreal.
Titel
Mãn
Autor
EAN
9780345813817
ISBN
978-0-345-81381-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
26.08.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.07 MB
Anzahl Seiten
160
Jahr
2014
Untertitel
Englisch
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