Kim Thúy
Auteur van Ru: Roman
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Fotografie: Kim Thúy en octobre 2020
Werken van Kim Thúy
Der Klang der Fremde : Roman. 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Thúy, Kim
- Officiële naam
- Nguyễn An Tịnh Kim Thuy
- Geboortedatum
- 1968-09-18
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Saigon, Vietnam
- Woonplaatsen
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Opleiding
- Université de Montréal
- Beroepen
- writer
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec (2015)
Leden
Discussies
Canadian Author Challenge — January: Robertson Davies & Kim Thúy in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (februari 2016)
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Lijsten
Translingualism (1)
First Novels (1)
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Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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- 12
- Leden
- 1,396
- Populariteit
- #18,409
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 91
- ISBNs
- 119
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Mãn (which means "fulfilled") grew up in Vietnam with her adoptive mother, Maman, who would often leave Mãn with friends or neighbors when she had an assignment as a revolutionary. There Mãn learned to be invisible, to serve the families with deft hands, anticipating their wants so they would have no cause to turn on her. This prepared her for the life of a foreign bride to a Vietnamese man in Montreal. Maman wanted her to be assured of a safe life, and Mãn continued to take up as little oxygen as possible.
Once in Montreal, however, Mãn is befriended by Julie, a smiling, open-hearted woman who dissolves the boundaries that Mãn has set up around herself. Soon Mãn is running an increasingly famous restaurant built around remembered and reimagined Vietnamese recipes. In Paris Mãn meets someone who will dissolve the boundaries around her heart as well.
Kim Thúy is a restaurateur and chef, and her passion for food is evident in this novel. If you love food, you will enjoy her descriptions of the tastes and textures of various foods used in Vietnamese cooking. But it's also a novel about a life between worlds and the struggle to find personal fulfillment in such a tenuous space. As in [Em] and [Ru], each chapter is only a page or two long and the book is short, but the language is rich and savory and the images linger.… (meer)