The Book of Salt
A Novel
Drawing inspiration from a fleeting reference in the Alice B. Toklas Cook Book to two 'Indochinese' men who at one point cooked for Toklas and Gertrude Stein, Truong has concocted a delectable fictional memoir.--Booklist.
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- ISBN: 978-0-618-44688-9
- EAN: 9780618446889
- Produktnummer: 19387573
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.2 cm 235 g
- Abbildungen: Trade Paperback
- Gewicht: 235
Über den Autor
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, was 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.
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