The Book of Salt
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547524993 (0547524994)
Publish date: June 15th 2004
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asia,
France,
Glbt,
Queer
I'm not sure why the author chose to make the famous real-life couple of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas important secondary characters in this book about a Vietnamese cook. It really only served as a distraction, when she could easily have used a fictional couple. There was a lot about this bo...
this is a hard one for me to rate. for some reason i had *extremely* low expectations going in, and i'm sure that affected my reading of this book for at least the first 75 pages or so. i did think that this was not easy to get into, to care at all about, and i really had to work on focusing on ac...
This book has a marvelous ending, so don't rush it. This book is full of metaphors, psychological undertones and food. It says alot about lots of things - Parisians, the French, home, emotions, sex and lots about loneliness. The language is spoken through metaphors and irony. I like the humor. I lik...
Vietnam. A lyrical and evocative reflection on colonialism, but reported as a story about desire and wholeness. The narrator, Binh, is Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's Vietnamese cook at 27 rue des Fleurus in Paris. Some reviewers have critiqued it for not being enough about Stein and Toklas; th...
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