# In The Kitchen

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- Authors: [Monica Ali](https://www.bookquiver.com/monica-ali)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-05-27
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

At the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, chef Gabriel Lightfoot is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity and his sanity are under constant challenge from an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is planning a new venture. Despite the pressure, his hard work looks set to pay off. Until the discovery of a porter's dead body in the kitchen appears to tip the scales. It is a small death, a lonely death - but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life. In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It is both the portrait of a man pushed to the edge, and a wry and telling look into the melting pot which is our contemporary existence. It confirms Monica Ali not only as a great modern storyteller but also an acute observer of the dramas of modern life.

## Editions

### In The Kitchen

- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5277-486-4
- Pages: 560
- Published: 2010-05-27
- Language: en_GB

### In The Kitchen

- Publisher: Transworld Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0908-191-3
- Published: 2009-05-27
- Language: en_GB