Book of Salt A Novel

Name: Book of Salt A Novel
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ISBN: 9780618446889

ISBN-10: 0618446885

ISBN-13: 9780618446889

Edition: 2003

Authors: Monique Truong

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The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world.In a mesmerizing tale of yearning and betrayal, Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the dark nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. She takes us back to Binh's youthful servitude in Saigon under colonial rule, to his life as a galley hand at sea, to his brief, fateful encounters in Paris with Paul Robeson and the young Ho…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Monique Truong was born and raised in Vietnam, and moved to the US after the fall of Saigon. She was an intellectual property attorney in New York, but now devotes herself full-time to writing. Her short fiction and essays have been taught in universities across America. This is her first novel.