Man

Resumen del libro

Man has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Man a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Man discovers her natural talent as a chef.

Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion, time and place, and even bring her customers to tears. Man is a mystery - her name means 'perfect fulfillment', yet she and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully.

But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, and Man discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair. Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Man is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.

Biografía del autor

Kim Thúy est née en 1968 à Saigon en pleine guerre du Vietnam. À l'âge de dix ans, elle fait partie des centaines de milliers de boat people fuyant le régime communiste. Installée à Montréal, elle exerce différents métiers couturière, interprète, avocate ou encore restauratrice avant de se consacrer à l'écriture. En 2010,Ru devient un best-seller en France et au Québec. Traduit dans plus de vingt pays, il obtient le Prix du Gouverneur général et le Grand Prix RTL-Lire. <br>Avec M n (2013) et Vi (2016), Kim Thúy poursuit l'exploration de son identité double, liant avec force et légèreté le passé et le présent, la mémoire et l'intime.