In the Kitchen

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary
Cover of the book In the Kitchen by Monica Ali, Scribner
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Monica Ali ISBN: 9781416579007
Publisher: Scribner Publication: June 16, 2009
Imprint: Scribner Language: English
Author: Monica Ali
ISBN: 9781416579007
Publisher: Scribner
Publication: June 16, 2009
Imprint: Scribner
Language: English

Monica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up to Brick Lane that will further establish her as one of England's most compelling and original voices.

Gabriel L ightfoot is an enterprising man from a northern E ngland mill town, making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial H otel, he is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own. D espite the pressures, all his hard work looks set to pay off.

Until a worker is found dead in the kitchen's basement. It is a small death, a lonely death -- but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life.

Elsewhere, Gabriel faces other complications. His father is dying of cancer, his girlfriend wants more from their relationship, and the restaurant manager appears to be running an illegal business under Gabe's nose.

Enter L ena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. U nder her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows -- and the future he thought he wanted.

Readers and reviewers have been stunned by the breadth of humanity in Monica Ali's fiction. S he is compared to D ickens and called one of three British novelists who are "the voice of a generation" by Time magazine. In the Kitchen is utterly contemporary yet has all the drama and heartbreak of a great nineteenth-century novel. Ali is sheer pleasure to read, a truly magnificent writer.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Monica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up to Brick Lane that will further establish her as one of England's most compelling and original voices.

Gabriel L ightfoot is an enterprising man from a northern E ngland mill town, making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial H otel, he is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own. D espite the pressures, all his hard work looks set to pay off.

Until a worker is found dead in the kitchen's basement. It is a small death, a lonely death -- but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life.

Elsewhere, Gabriel faces other complications. His father is dying of cancer, his girlfriend wants more from their relationship, and the restaurant manager appears to be running an illegal business under Gabe's nose.

Enter L ena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. U nder her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows -- and the future he thought he wanted.

Readers and reviewers have been stunned by the breadth of humanity in Monica Ali's fiction. S he is compared to D ickens and called one of three British novelists who are "the voice of a generation" by Time magazine. In the Kitchen is utterly contemporary yet has all the drama and heartbreak of a great nineteenth-century novel. Ali is sheer pleasure to read, a truly magnificent writer.

More books from Scribner

Cover of the book YOU: Losing Weight by Monica Ali
Cover of the book All the Light We Cannot See by Monica Ali
Cover of the book The End of the Pier by Monica Ali
Cover of the book A Mind to Murder by Monica Ali
Cover of the book The Caregivers by Monica Ali
Cover of the book BakeWise by Monica Ali
Cover of the book A Dedicated Man (An Inspector Banks Mystery) by Monica Ali
Cover of the book The Hundred-Foot Journey by Monica Ali
Cover of the book Extreme Indifference by Monica Ali
Cover of the book House of Bush, House of Saud by Monica Ali
Cover of the book Poems in the Manner Of by Monica Ali
Cover of the book A Murder of Crows by Monica Ali
Cover of the book Blind Fall by Monica Ali
Cover of the book The Tarnished Eye by Monica Ali
Cover of the book One of the Boys by Monica Ali
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy