The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the
1930s through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing his famous mesdames and
their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh
observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place
in the world. In a mesmerizing tale of yearning and betrayal,
Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the
dark nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. She takes us back to
Binh's youthful servitude in Saigon under colonial rule, to his
life as a galley hand at sea, to his brief, fateful encounters in
Paris with Paul Robeson and the young Ho Chi Minh.
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