Mãn: A Novel

Thuy, Kim (translated from the French By Sheila Fischman)

ISBN 10: 0345813790 / ISBN 13: 9780345813794

Edité par Random House Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2014

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First printing. Bumped on head of spine, else near fine. DJ rubbed on ends of spine and ends of flap folds, else very good.

N° de réf. du vendeur 006357

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Mãn: A Novel
• Éditeur: Random House Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0345813790
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780345813794
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Canadian
  • Fiction - General

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Synopsis

Following on the Giller Prize-nominated and Governor General's Literary Award-winning success of Ru, Kim Thúy's latest novel is a triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined.
          Mãn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mãn a husband--a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal.

          Thrown into a new world, Mãn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion, time and place, and even bring her customers to tears.

          Mãn is a mystery--her name means "perfect fulfillment," yet she and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, and Mãn discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair.

          Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Mãn is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.

À propos de l?auteur

Born in Saigon in 1968, Kim Thúy left Vietman with the boat people at the age of ten and settled with her family in Quebec. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, restaurant owner and food commentator on radio and television. She lives in Montreal and devotes herself to writing.


SHEILA FISCHMAN is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec. She lives in Montreal.