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Marie Prevost is a contemporary Canadian who sets off for Paris to research Proust and escape a failed romance. Sarah Bensimon is a young Parisian Jew who marries into an orthodox family and takes refuge in her kitchen, recreating a kosher version of classic French cuisine. The third woman is madame Jeanne Proust herself, fragments of whose 'diaries' are recreated with impeccably researched detail - as she worries about Marcel, his late-night habits, his diet and his unsuitable friends. All these strands are brought poignantly together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders and insiders - in this intelligent and beautifully judged debut novel.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
• Author: Kate Taylor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• EAN: 9780099441984
• ISBN: 0099441985
• ID: 04491728
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 410 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 130 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. March 2004

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