Complete number line from 1 to 10; signed by Kim Thuy on the title page with no inscription; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean, unread copy in collectible condition.

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Titre: Man: A Novel
�diteur: Random House Canada, Toronto, Ont
Date de parution: 2014
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 0345813790
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9780345813794
Reliure: Hardcover
�dition: Canadian First.
�tat de l'article: Near Fine
�tat de la jaquette: Near Fine, Not Price Clipped
Sign�: Signed by Author(s)
Type de livre: Book

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Following on the Giller Prize-nominated and Governor General's Literary Award-winning success of Ru, Kim Th�y's latest novel is a triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined.
          M�n 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 M�n a husband--a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal.

          Thrown into a new world, M�n 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.

          M�n 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 M�n discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair.

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

� propos de l?auteur

Born in Saigon in 1968, Kim Th�y 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 Qu�bec. She lives in Montreal.

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