The cook
Kerangal, Maylis de2019
Book
The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, we follow Mauro as he finds his path in life: baking cakes as a child; cooking for his friends as a teenager; a series of studies, jobs, and travels; a failed love affair; a successful business; a virtual nervous breakdown; and-at the end-a rediscovery of his hunger for cooking, his appetite for life.
Main title:
The cook / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Author:
Kerangal, Maylis de, authorTaylor, Sam, translator
Work:
Edition:
First American edition.
Imprint:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
100 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in French, 2016.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780374120900 (hbk)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
343015