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The Cheffe
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel | Marie Ndiaye
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From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Three Strong Women: an elegant, hypnotic new novel about a legendary French female chef--the facts her life, the nearly ineffable qualities of her cooking, and the obsessive, sometimes destructive desire for purity of taste and experience that shaped her life. Continuing her tradition of writing provocative fiction about fascinating women, here Marie NDiaye gives us the story of a Great Female Chef--a chef who was celebrated as one of the best in a world where men dominate, and the way that her pursuit of love, pleasure, and gustatory delights helped shape her life and career. Told from the perspective of her former assistant (and unrequited lover), now an aged chef himself, here is the story of a woman's quest to the front of the kitchen--and the extraordinary journey she takes along the way.
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Mitch
Mitch
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel | Marie Ndiaye
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The jacket review says …” NDiaye excels at luscious, forensic descriptions of the ritualistic preparation of food” - think I‘m in for a treat!

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janeycanuck
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The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel | Marie Ndiaye
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We took a wee road trip up to Prince Edward County, visiting wineries & walking in Pres‘quile Provincial Park with this audio to accompany us. It was an odd little book with a very unreliable narrator. I don‘t quite get what the fuss is all about but it was a nice soundtrack for the day.

MsMelissa What a lovely day! 4y
llwheeler Beautiful picture! I love prince Edward County, we didn't get there this year though 4y
janeycanuck @llwheeler this was my first time! It was lovely and we were really comfortable with the COVID precautions. Definitely want to go back when the world is more normal again! 4y
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janeycanuck @Book_Fiend_Melissa it was, we had such a nice day. It was my first time stopping at the Big Apple, too! 4y
MsMelissa @janeycanuck I have a funny Big Apple story. I grew up in Oakville, so whenever my parents would drive me to and from Queen‘s we‘d always drive by the Big Apple. My parents would never stop saying they heard the pies are bad. I always wanted to stop, but we never did. Fast forward a few years. I‘m now living in Ottawa. I‘m driving with my parents and my grandma who was coming to visit. My grandma wants to stop at the Big Apple, so we did ⬇️ 4y
MsMelissa We buy some pies and doughnuts, and eat them. At this point both my parents say they are really good and they are not quite sure why they thought they tasted bad. My parents now live very close to the Big Apple. Needless to say, it isn‘t a place we pass by without stopping at anymore 🤣 4y
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Lindy
Lindy
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel | Marie Ndiaye
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But she sometimes misled me, she didn‘t lie but she didn‘t correct me when I misunderstood her, and what right would I have to complain that she wasn‘t always sincere, she didn‘t owe me anything, you never owe anything to people who want to know your secrets, even out of love …

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Lindy
Lindy
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel | Marie Ndiaye
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“I would never know […] although I have an idea, it‘s only conjecture, and as you see I don‘t jump to conclusions, but my conviction is firm.” An entire novel in the rambling, unreliable voice of a man being interviewed about an enigmatic French woman he worked for. There are no chapter breaks in 287 pages. Paragraphs are single sentences, often more than 100 words long. A vaguely unsettling yet propulsive read. #translation by Jordan Stump.

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Lindy
Lindy
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel | Marie Ndiaye
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…when my tranquility came back it would quickly revive my consuming, exhausting desire to know every detail and every setting of the Cheffe‘s life, to know more about her, and to know it better, than she did herself, I studied my feelings to be sure of the perfect integrity of that desire that took up so much of my thought, I wanted to appear before the Cheffe with all my decency intact, unavoidable little secrets not withstanding …

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Lindy
Lindy
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel | Marie Ndiaye
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Reading in the shadows of my garden. How many more warm days?

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