Kim Thúy
Teoksen Ru tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Image credit: Kim Thúy en octobre 2020
Tekijän teokset
Der Klang der Fremde : Roman. 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Thúy, Kim
- Virallinen nimi
- Nguyễn An Tịnh Kim Thuy
- Syntymäaika
- 1968-09-18
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Canada
- Syntymäpaikka
- Saigon, Vietnam
- Asuinpaikat
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Koulutus
- Université de Montréal
- Ammatit
- writer
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec (2015)
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
Canadian Author Challenge — January: Robertson Davies & Kim Thúy, 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (helmikuu 2016)
Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
Translingualism (1)
First Novels (1)
Palkinnot
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Tilastot
- Teokset
- 12
- Jäseniä
- 1,394
- Suosituimmuussija
- #18,440
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.8
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 91
- ISBN:t
- 119
- Kielet
- 15
- Kuinka monen suosikki
- 1
Mãn (which means "fulfilled") grew up in Vietnam with her adoptive mother, Maman, who would often leave Mãn with friends or neighbors when she had an assignment as a revolutionary. There Mãn learned to be invisible, to serve the families with deft hands, anticipating their wants so they would have no cause to turn on her. This prepared her for the life of a foreign bride to a Vietnamese man in Montreal. Maman wanted her to be assured of a safe life, and Mãn continued to take up as little oxygen as possible.
Once in Montreal, however, Mãn is befriended by Julie, a smiling, open-hearted woman who dissolves the boundaries that Mãn has set up around herself. Soon Mãn is running an increasingly famous restaurant built around remembered and reimagined Vietnamese recipes. In Paris Mãn meets someone who will dissolve the boundaries around her heart as well.
Kim Thúy is a restaurateur and chef, and her passion for food is evident in this novel. If you love food, you will enjoy her descriptions of the tastes and textures of various foods used in Vietnamese cooking. But it's also a novel about a life between worlds and the struggle to find personal fulfillment in such a tenuous space. As in [Em] and [Ru], each chapter is only a page or two long and the book is short, but the language is rich and savory and the images linger.… (lisätietoja)