The Book of Salt: A Novel - Brossura

Truong, Monique

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0618446885 ISBN 13: 9780618446889

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2004

Riassunto

Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonial Vietnam, his years as a galley hand at sea, and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Monique Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the United States at age six. She graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law, going on to specialize in intellectual property. Truong coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Her first novel,The Book of Salt, a national bestseller, has been awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among other honors. Granting Truong an Award of Excellence, the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University called her "a pioneer in the field, as an academic, an advocate, and an artist." Truong now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Book by Truong Monique

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0618446885
• ISBN 13: 9780618446889
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272