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The cook
- Title
- The cook / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
- Author
- Kerangal, Maylis de
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 19-167 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 100 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic--to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary. It transcends this simplistic form, however, through the lyricism and intensely vivid evocative nature of Maylis de Kerangal's prose, which conjures moods, sensations, and flavors, as well as the exhausting rigor and sometimes violent abuses of kitchen work. In The Cook , we follow Mauro as he finds his path in life: baking cakes as a child; cooking for his friends as a teenager; a series of studies, jobs, and travels; a failed love affair; a successful business; a virtual nervous breakdown; and--at the end--a rediscovery of his hunger for cooking, his appetite for life.
- Mauro, a young self-taught cook, finds his path in life through baking. From baking cakes as a child and cooking for his friends as a teenager, he travels around the world in a series of studies and jobs. Over the years he experiences a failed love affair, a successful business, and a virtual nervous breakdown. But at the end, Mauro rediscovers his hunger for cooking, his appetite for life.--Adapted from jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Chemin de tables. English
- Alternative Title
- Chemin de tables.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage.
- FICTION / Coming of Age.
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels.
- Note
- "Originally published in French in 2016 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Un chemin de tables"--Title page verso.
- Language (note)
- In English; translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFC 19-167
- ISBN
- 9780374120900
- 0374120900
- LCCN
- 2018044068
- OCLC
- 1036203489
- Author
- Kerangal, Maylis de, author.
- Title
- The cook / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English; translated from the French.
- Added Author
- Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.Translation of (work): Kerangal, Maylis de. Chemin de tables.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 19-167