Man

Marc Notes: Translation of French book with same title. Review Quotes: Praise for MAn: "This slim, wondrous book tells a story of love, food, passion and life rooted between worlds." "Maclean's""A delicate and vital love story.... The writing is both heartbreaking and insistent." "Toronto Star ""A story that is ageless and universal, and exquisitely told." "Winnipeg Free Press"Biographical Note: KIM THUY has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing. SHEILA FISCHMAN is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier of the Ordre national du Quebec. She lives in Montreal."Review Quotes: Praise for Man: "This slim, wondrous book tells a story of love, food, passion and life rooted between worlds." "Maclean's""A delicate and vital love story.... The writing is both heartbreaking and insistent." "Toronto Star ""A story that is ageless and universal, and exquisitely told." "Winnipeg Free Press""Publisher Marketing: A triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined, "Man"is a seductive and luminous work of literature from Kim Thuy, whose first book, "Ru," was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, received a Governor General's Literary Award and won the nationwide book competition Canada Reads. Man 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 Man a husband--a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Man 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. Man 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 Man discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair. Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, "Man"is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life." Review Citations: Quill & Quire 09/01/2014 pg. 24 (EAN 9780345813817, Other) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Fischman, Sheila SHEILA FISCHMAN has translated over fifty works of Quebec literature into English. She was the recipient of the Felix-Antoine Savard prize for her translations in 1989 and 1990 and has twice won the Governor General's Award. She lives in Montreal.