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PublisherScribner

ISBN-10141657168X

ISBN-139781416571681

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038725254

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn the Kitchen

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicGeneral, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorMónica Ali

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight24.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-001551

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Part Kitchen Confidential, part murder mystery, [Ali] uses a posh hotel as a window into British society."-- The Daily Beast, "Engrossing... Impressive... The work of a fearless writer determined to challenge herself."--Kirkus(starred review), "Wildly sympathetic, obsessed, hypocritical, delusional, human, Gabriel Lightfoot is an unforgettable protagonist, his descent into lunacy frighteningly recognizable, individual, profound."-- Pam Houston,O, the Oprah Magazine, "Ali is an expert at detailing the immigrant experience in London... Ali possesses great powers of lyricism and insight."-- Christian Science Monitor, "Monica Ali ... [is] a talented scene-builder and examiner of the human soul... A portrait of a middle-aged Holden Caulfield wandering the streets."-- Karen Sandstrom,The Plain Dealer(Cleveland), "Remarkable... A meditation on free will and what it means to be a human being trying to control one's life."-- Columbus Dispatch, "Ali is brilliant at showing loss and adaptation in a polyglot culture... In the Kitchen has the thud and knock of life -- inexplicable, impenetrable, now sewn up at all."-- Patricia Volk,Publishers Weekly, "Mesmerizing. Few writers these days can strip characters to their very souls like Ali does."-- Tina Jordan,Entertainment Weekly, "Ali writes with wit and sympathy about the many twists and turns that define our lives."-- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Dewey Decimal823/.92

SynopsisMonica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up toBrick Lanethat will further establish her as one of England's most compelling and original voices.Gabriel L ightfoot is an enterprising man from a northern E ngland mill town, making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial H otel, he is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own. D espite the pressures, all his hard work looks set to pay off.Until a worker is found dead in the kitchen's basement. It is a small death, a lonely death -- but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life.Elsewhere, Gabriel faces other complications. His father is dying of cancer, his girlfriend wants more from their relationship, and the restaurant manager appears to be running an illegal business under Gabe's nose.Enter L ena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. U nder her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows -- and the future he thought he wanted.Readers and reviewers have been stunned by the breadth of humanity in Monica Ali's fiction. S he is compared to D ickens and called one of three British novelists who are "the voice of a generation" byTimemagazine.In the Kitchenis utterly contemporary yet has all the drama and heartbreak of a great nineteenth-century novel. Ali is sheer pleasure to read, a truly magnificent writer., This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Inte illustrerad. 1900 edition. Utdrag: ... lefva mitt lif en gang till, skulle jag ej onska utelamna dessa fyra ar ur dess erfarenheter." TRETTIONDE KAPITLET. Bibelinstitutet For Hem-Och Utlandska Missionen. ETT bref finnes i Kvinnornas departement i Institutet, som gifver vid handen Mr. Moodys tanke om denna skola: "east Northfield, Mass., "den 16: de December 1895. "min arade Miss Strong "Jag onskar fa mina bada barnbarn in i Kvinnornas departement i borjan af ar 1916. De aro omkring lika gamla, och jag skulle onska, att de fa rum tillsammans. Jag onskar, att de lara sig gora husbesok. Ni kunde skrif va in dem nu, sa att om byggnaden ar full vid borjan af hostterminen, de ej behofva trangas ut. Deras namn aro Irene Moody, fodd i Mount Hermon den 22: dra Augusti 1895, och Emma Moody Fitt, fodd i East Northfield den 16: de December. "Det ar min onskan, att da de vaxt upp och fatt genomga Northfield Seminariet de ma anvanda tva ar i Bibelinstitutet; och emedan jag sjalf ar intresserad i sallskapet, hoppas jag Ni ma gifva min begaran onsklig uppmarksamhet. Jag begar icke fritt intrade. Jag vill endast forsakra mig om, att de ma fa plats dar. Jag skulle onska att de fingo gora nagot husarbete. Jag finner att det ar sa mycket lattare for unga kvinnor, om de kunna taga vara pa ett hus, sa att de kunna skota sitt eget om de skulle fa ett sadant. "Hogaktningsfullt, "D. L. Moody." "Jag tror vi maste hafva lekmannapredikanter--man som aro beredda att..., From the immigrant world of East End London in Brick Lane, shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize, Ali moves into the culinary world of a once posh London hotel restaurant, again capturing the multicultural layers of modern London. Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef for the Imperial Hotel, dreams of owning his own restaurant but must first contend with the UN task force that is his kitchen crew. His life becomes even more complicated when the body of a Hungarian porter is found dead in a storeroom. Still, restaurant troubles are nothing when compared with his personal life. His girlfriend is pressuring him about marriage, unaware that he's sleeping with a Russian kitchen girl, and his ever-difficult father is dying of cancer. Gabe's two stories entwine, the pressure mounts, and, finally, he loses his bearings. With sometimes sly humor, Ali deftly sheds light on the irony of struggling in a land with abundant opportunities. For all fiction readers. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/09.]Donna Bettencourt, Mesa County P.L., Grand Junction, CO Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

LC Classification NumberPR6101.L45I5 2009