Mãn (UK)

Mãn Paperback – 7 Aug. 2014 by Kim Thúy (Author), UK.

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 160 pages
• Dimensions 133 x 197 x 14mm | 211g
• Publication date 07 Aug 2014
• Publisher Profile Books Ltd
• Imprint The Clerkenwell Press
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Main
• ISBN13 9781846689963