The Book Of Salt by Monique Truong

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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 Cookbook that inspired The Book of Salt, a brilliant first novel by a talented young Vietnamese American writer about the taste of exile. Paris, 1934, 'Thin Bin', as they call him, has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to the 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?. This 2003 Chatto & Windus Hardback is in good condition. DJ. Some fading on dust jacket, pages tanning. ISBN: 9780701175221 SKU: 1583634 This image is of the actual book. Show more