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Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Kate Taylor
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Description for Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Paperback. A novel that brings together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders and insiders. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 345.
Marie Prévost is a contemporary Canadian who sets off for Paris to research Proust and escape a failed romance. Sarah Bensimon is a young Parisian Jew who marries into an orthodox family and takes refuge in her kitchen, recreating a kosher version of classic French cuisine. The third woman is madame Jeanne Proust herself, fragments of whose 'diaries' are recreated with impeccably researched detail - as she worries about Marcel, his late-night habits, his diet and his unsuitable friends.
All these strands are brought poignantly together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099441984
SKU
V9780099441984
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About Kate Taylor
Kate Taylor is a Toronto writer and cultural journalist, born in France and raised in Ottowa. She has been a theatre critic at The Globe and Mail, winning awards for her reviews and has also contributed to Canadian Art, Applied Arts and The Arts Today on CBC Radio. In 1989 she published Painters, a biography of Canadian artists written for ... Read more
Reviews for Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Taylor's meticulously crafted novel is an impressive debut
Daily Mail
Tenderness and subtlety: it is an ambitious project by a promising writer
Times Literary Supplement
The parallel portraits of old and new worlds are vividly atmospheric...contains a lot to admire
Sunday Telegraph
Daily Mail
Tenderness and subtlety: it is an ambitious project by a promising writer
Times Literary Supplement
The parallel portraits of old and new worlds are vividly atmospheric...contains a lot to admire
Sunday Telegraph