Mãn / Kim Thúy ; translated from French by Sheila Fischman.
"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."--Amazon.ca.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345813794 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 139 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: Montréal : Group Librex/Éditions Libre Expression, 2013. Translation of: Mãn. Translation of French book with same title. |
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Subject: | Thúy, Kim > Fiction. Mothers > Fiction. Daughters > Fiction. Man-woman relationships. Chefs > Fiction. Vietnamese > Québec (Province) > Montréal > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Festival of the Written Arts 2018 > Sechelt (B.C.) |
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Sechelt Public Library | F THUY (Text) | 3326000318929 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |