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Book by Penny Simpson
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[An] extravaganza where the real and the imagined take turn and turn about... sumptuously detailed and fantastical... [this novel is] at once full of disturbing delicacy, and at the same time [forceful]... [marked by its] humour, verve and hallucinatory strangeness. --Clare Morgan, Times Literary Supplement
A feast of language, in some ways akin to the feasts depicted in the Biblical Book of Esther. Simpson s novel, though, is served on a platter embellished with similes and metaphors so strong that their aromas permeate the text with every page. --Jewish Book World (USA)
Magic realism at its political best, finely echoing the sense of unreality and disorientation that reigned as Hitler and the Nazis gradually gained power in a country still reeling in the aftermath of the Great War. True to the genre, Simpson uses plain language and an understated narrative voice to speak of extraordinary things. When I turned the last page, I found myself wanting to start the book all over again. --Suzy Ceulan Hughes, www.gwales.com
Présentation de l'éditeur
Berlin, 1929, a city edging towards disaster, but seven foot Jewish orphan Esther Rosenbaum is serving up a banquet for her circle of bohemians, artists and kabarett composers. Magic realism combines with history to show how cookery can be an act of storytelling, and imagination itself an act of subversion and survival.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. It is Berlin, 1929. The inflation-hungry city is edging towards disaster, but seven-foot Jewish orphan Esther Rosenbaum is serving up a banquet for friends. They are the bohemians, artists and kabarett composers who have sampled her finest recipes in the legendary Schorns restaurant and long declared her Germany's most celebrated chef. Except it is a life built on quicksand: Schorns' proprietor is owned by a gay black marketeer, Leon Wolf, but patronised by Nazis. The revolutionaries who briefly seized power ten years earlier are distracted by personal feuds and vendettas, manipulated by one Bertolt Brecht. While Esther, once a towering presence clad in her peacock tapestry skirts, has started to dress as a man to blend into Berlin's vicious night streets.The cook capable of creating delicacies such as chocolate hearts stuffed with saffron pen nibs has stopped eating and is reducing herself to bone. Using a burlesque brand of magic realism, Penny Simpson conjures up fantastical elements to show how cookery can be an act of storytelling, and imagination itself an act of subversion and survival. The interwar cabaret scene in Munich and Berlin, seen through the eyes of a seven foot Jewish giantess. The tapestry of Jewish culture, evoked through food, theatre, clothes and custom, at the point at which it is about to unravel. This retro epic evokes Angela Carter's brand of burlesque magic realism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780955527234
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. It is Berlin, 1929. The inflation-hungry city is edging towards disaster, but seven-foot Jewish orphan Esther Rosenbaum is serving up a banquet for friends. They are the bohemians, artists and kabarett composers who have sampled her finest recipes in the legendary Schorns restaurant and long declared her Germany's most celebrated chef. Except it is a life built on quicksand: Schorns' proprietor is owned by a gay black marketeer, Leon Wolf, but patronised by Nazis. The revolutionaries who briefly seized power ten years earlier are distracted by personal feuds and vendettas, manipulated by one Bertolt Brecht. While Esther, once a towering presence clad in her peacock tapestry skirts, has started to dress as a man to blend into Berlin's vicious night streets.The cook capable of creating delicacies such as chocolate hearts stuffed with saffron pen nibs has stopped eating and is reducing herself to bone. Using a burlesque brand of magic realism, Penny Simpson conjures up fantastical elements to show how cookery can be an act of storytelling, and imagination itself an act of subversion and survival. The interwar cabaret scene in Munich and Berlin, seen through the eyes of a seven foot Jewish giantess. The tapestry of Jewish culture, evoked through food, theatre, clothes and custom, at the point at which it is about to unravel. This retro epic evokes Angela Carter's brand of burlesque magic realism. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780955527234
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