The Book of Salt
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| Management number | 231655548 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $90.00 | Model Number | 231655548 | ||
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“[He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper. It began captivatingly for those days: Two American ladies wish...” It was these lines in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book that inspired The Book of Salt.In Paris, 1934, Bính has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to the train station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with "the Steins", stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Bính has 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 live-in cook at the famous apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus. Before Bính’s decision is revealed, his mesmerizing narrative catapults us back to his youth in French-colonized Vietnam, his years as a galley hand at sea, and his days turning out fragrant repasts for the doyennes of the Lost Generation. Read more
| ASIN | B00E9O0GLG |
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| Author | Monique Truong |
| Version | Unabridged |
| Language | English |
| Narrator | J. Paul Boehmer |
| Publisher | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Program Type | Audiobook |
| Listening Length | 10 hours and 24 minutes |
| Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
| Audiblecom Release Date | August 01, 2013 |
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Literary Fiction
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