In the Kitchen: A Novel

In the Kitchen: A Novel

Monica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up to Brick Lane that further establishes her as one of Englandâ€™s most compelling and original voices.

Gabriel Lightfoot, an enterprising man from a northern English mill town, is making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, he aims to run a tight kitchen. Though heâ€™s under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, all Gabeâ€™s hard work looks set to pay off.

Until, that is, a worker is found dead in the kitchenâ€™s basement. It is a small death, a lonely deathâ€”but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabeâ€™s life.

Enter Lena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. Under her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knowsâ€”and the future he thought he wanted.

With prose that "crackles with verve and vivacity" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and "a truly Dickensian cast of characters" (The Buffalo News), Aliâ€™s "portrait of a middle-aged Holden Caulfield wandering the streets" (The Plain Dealer) is a sheer pleasure to read.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781416571698
ReleaseDate 2010-05-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416571698

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781416571698
ReleaseDate	2010-05-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416571698

In the Kitchen: A Novel

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