In the Kitchen - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1410419819 ISBN 13 : 9781410419811

Synopsis

Gabriel Lightfoot, originally from a northern England mill town, is making good in London as executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, in under constant challenge from the competing demands of a multinational staff, gimlet-eyed hotel management, and secret plans to start his own restaurant. Not to mention the worker found dead in the basement...

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Monica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up to Brick Lane that further establishes her as one of England’s most compelling and original voices.

Gabriel Lightfoot, an enterprising man from a northern English mill town, is making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, he aims to run a tight kitchen. Though he’s under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, all Gabe’s hard work looks set to pay off.

Until, that is, a worker is found dead in the kitchen’s basement. It is a small death, a lonely death—but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe’s life.

Enter Lena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. Under her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows—and the future he thought he wanted.

With prose that "crackles with verve and vivacity" ( Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and "a truly Dickensian cast of characters" ( The Buffalo News), Ali’s "portrait of a middle-aged Holden Caulfield wandering the streets" ( The Plain Dealer) is a sheer pleasure to read.

Revue de presse

"A novel of quiet pleasures, with a perplexed hero who always rings true." (Mail on Sunday)

"Her descriptions of Gabe's disassociated states are excellent...this is an ambitious book from a writer not content to revisit familiar territory...Serious and intelligent." (Independent)

"Ali's strengths lie in a cool authorial distance, and a passion for detail" (The Times)

"A compelling story..Ali is second to none when it comes to capturing modes of speech...Monica Ali is shaping up to be a fine novelist" (Sunday Express)

"The kitchen of the title is the Imperial Hotel in central London, and Ali's dazzling accounts of its manic goings-on make the chef Anthony Bourdain's gory memoir, Kitchen Confidential, seem as genteel as Fanny Cradock." (Sunday Times)

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410419819
• ISBN 13: 9781410419811
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 703
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible