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The Cheffe - A Culinary Novel (Paperback)
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"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any
description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine
Schwartz, New York Review of Books "Rich, meandering . . . NDiaye
excels at luscious, forensic descriptions of the ritualistic
preparation of food" - Catherine Taylor, Mail on Sunday The Cheffe
is born into an impoverished family in Sainte-Bazeille in
south-western France, but when she takes a job working in the
kitchen of a couple in the Landes region, it does not take long
before it becomes clear that the Cheffe has an unusual, remarkable
talent for cooking. She dreams in recipes, she's always imagining
new food combinations, she hunts down elusive flavours and aromas,
and she soon usurps the couple's cook. But for all her genius, the
Cheffe remains very secretive about the rest of her life. She
becomes pregnant, but will not reveal her daughter's father. She
shares nothing of her feelings or emotions. And when the demands of
her work and caring for her child become too much, she leaves her
baby in the care of her family, and sets out to open her own
restaurant, which will soon win rave reviews and be lauded by all.
But her relationship with her daughter will never be easy, and
before long, it will threaten to destroy everything the Cheffe has
spent her life perfecting. Translated from the French by Jordan
Stump.
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