The Book of Salt, Paperback / softback Book

The Book of Salt Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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In a compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indochina to Paris, the Vietnamese cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B.

Toklas reveals his own fascinating story-Paris, 1934.

Binh has accompanied his employers to the station for their departure to America.

His own destination is unclear: will he go with his 'Mesdames', 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 Fleurs.

Binh is a lost soul, an exile and an alien, a man of musings, memories and possibly lies- Tastes, oceans, sweat, tears - The Book of Salt is a an inspired novel about food and exile, love and betrayal.

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