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Buchbeschreibung Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR003964762
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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. [He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper. It began captivatingly for those days: 'Two American ladies wish.' It was these lines in The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook that inspired The Book of Salt, a brilliant first novel by a talented young Vietnamese American writer about the taste of exile. Paris, 1934, 'Thin Bin', as they call him, has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to the station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with 'the Steins', stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Binh fled his homeland in disgrace, leaving behind his malevolent charlatan of a father and his self-sacrificing mother. For five years, he has been the personal cook at the famous apartment on the rue de Fleurus. Before Binh's decision is revealed, we are catapulted back to his youth in French-colonized Indo China, where he learned to cook in the embassy kitchens, his years as a galley hand at sea, and his days turning out fragrant repasts for the doyennes of the Lost Generation. Binh knows far more than what the Steins eat: he knows their routines and intimacies, their food and follies. With wry insight, we see Stein and Toklas ensconced in rueful domesticity. But is Binh's account reliable? A lost soul, he is a late-night habitue of the Paris demi-monde, an exile and an alien, a man of musings, memories, and possibly lies, susceptible to drink and occasional self-mutilation with a kitchen knife.Love is the prize that has eluded him, from his family to the men he has sought out in his farflung journeys, often at his peril and more recently with risk to Stein's manuscript notebooks. Intricate, compelling, and witty, the novel weaves in historical characters, from Stein and Toklas to Paul Robeson and Ho Chi Minh, with remarkable originality. Tastes, oceans, sweat, tears -- The Book of Salt is an inspired novel about food and exile, love and betrayal. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR004253324
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Buchbeschreibung Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Chatto & Windus 2003; An UNREAD, fine in fine unclipped DW, FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing, HARDBACK. #L. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003524
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Buchbeschreibung Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Uncorrected Book Proof. VG, Edgewear, laminate flaking, ink price, review slip pasted in/NO DUST JACKET. Drama. Author's first novel. Expanded condition report/scan on request. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 017815
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. A near fine 1st Edition Hardcover (full number line ending in 1) a touch bumped to spine ends and slight lean, unmarked pages a little tanned to the text-block edges in a very good unclipped dustwrapper a little creased to edges - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 21409
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Buchbeschreibung Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Near fine - a bright, neat copy of the first UK edition. Octavo in original publisher's boards with silver title and credits to spine. Paper stock very slightly age-toned. 'A compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indo-China to Paris, the Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating story.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1708817
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