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Monique truong s 2003 novel the book of salt is a fictionalized story of a gay vietnamese chef who, while working in the household of gertrude stein and alice b. The novel will certainly place her as one of the brightest young stars on the american literary scene. Mar 31, 2003 the book of salt is a brilliant debut by a young vietnamese american, monique truong. In a city that always looks better in a memory, time lost can make the night seem eternal and full of stars.
Jul 01, 2004 the book of salt is the first novellength work by truong. Truong born may 1968 in saigon in south vietnam is a vietnamese american writer living in brooklyn, new york. Truong picks up that point of unknown and spins it into a novel about love, identity, home and food. It won the new york public library young lions fiction award, the 2003 bard fiction more about monique truong. The right one opens to its full span, a flourish of white. The book of salt included a lot of monique truong s debut book centers on binh, a gay vietnamese cook who flees saigon in 1929 to work as a galley hand at sea. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by having full access to all books. Unsanctioned histories of love caught in the circuits of global capitalism in the book of salt 2004, monique truong challenges the conventional portrayal of gertrude stein and alice b.
Monique truongs first novel, the book of salt, is a remarkably inventive fictional account of a vietnamese cook whom truong appropriated from several pages of the celebrated expatriate american. Toklas cook book that inspired the book of salt, a brilliant first novel by acclaimed vietnamese american writer monique truong. A novel and millions of other books are available for instant access. The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that i have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.
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The book of salt by monique truong about the book about the author an interview with monique truong about the book monique truong s debut novel, the book of salt houghton mifflin, april 2003, is a true literary feast. Read an excerpt from the book of salt by monique truong at mostly fiction. Chapter 1 summary the novel opens at the main train station in paris, with binh accompanying his employers, gertrude stein and alice toklas, on their way to their ocean voyage to america. Photographers are flashing lights and snapping photos, much to stein and toklass delight. Contact your library if you do not have a username and password. The book opens with him examining two pictures taken when his mesdames leave for. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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