# The Book of Salt

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- Authors: [Monique Truong](https://www.bookquiver.com/monique-truong)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-07-01

## Description

In a compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indochina to Paris, the Vietnamese cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating story-Paris, 1934. Binh has accompanied his employers to the station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with his 'Mesdames', stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Binh fled his homeland in disgrace, leaving behind his malevolent charlatan of a father and his self-sacrificing mother. For five years, he has been the personal cook at the famous apartment on the rue de Fleurs. Binh is a lost soul, an exile and an alien, a man of musings, memories and possibly lies- Tastes, oceans, sweat, tears - The Book of Salt is a an inspired novel about food and exile, love and betrayal.

## Editions

### The Book of Salt

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-545-5
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2004-07-01
- Language: en_GB