02097cam a2200409 i 4500 609252950 TxAuBib 20221114120000.0 040616s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780618446889 pbk. 0618446885 pbk. (OCoLC)55657455 TxAuBib rda Truong, Monique T. D. The book of salt / Monique Truong. First Mariner books edition. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 261 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Mariner book.". In Paris, in 1934, Binh has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alivce B. Toklas, to the train station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with "the Steins," stay in France, or return to Vietnam? Binh fled his homeland in disgrace. For five years, he has been the live-in cook at the famous apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus. Before Binh's decision is revealed, his narrative catapults us back to his youth in French-colonized Vietnam, his years as a galley hand at sea, and his days turning out fragrant repasts for the doyennes of the Lost Generation. He is a habitue of the Paris demimonde, an exile and an alien, a man of musings and memories, and, possibly, lies. Love is the prize that has eluded him, from his family to the men he has sought out, often at his peril.--From publisher description. 20221114. Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 Fiction. Toklas, Alice B Fiction. Vietnamese France Fiction. Americans France Fiction. Women authors Fiction. Household employees Fiction. Gay men Fiction. Paris (France) Fiction. Vietnam Fiction. Cookbooks Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction.