The Cook

Maylis de Kerangal

Original title: Un chemin de tables

earliest edition we have, 2016 Brilliance Audio, 2019 audiobook

The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic--to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary. It transcends thi...

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Editions we hold

The Cook paperback · 2020 · Picador · 112 pages · 9781250251152
Cook edition · 2019 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374716196
The Cook hardcover · 2019 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 112 pages · 9780374120900
Un chemin de tables edition · 2019 · FOLIO · 112 pages · 9782072853852
Cook, The audiobook · 2019 · Brilliance Audio · 9781721364503
Un chemin de tables paperback · 2016 · French and European Publications Inc · 105 pages · 9782370210753
Un chemin de tables edition · 2016 · Feryane · 189 pages · 9782363603531

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