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Man 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 Man a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Man 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. Man 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 Man discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair. Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Man is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.

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

• Full title: Man
• Author: Kim Thúy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781846689963
• ISBN: 1846689961
• ID: 02600614
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Weight: 165 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. August 2014

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