The Book of Salt - BookWyrm

No cover — Monique T. D. Truong, Monique Truong: The Book of Salt (2004, Houghton Mifflin)

272 pages

English language

Published Aug. 28, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin.

ISBN:: 978-0-618-44688-9

(3 reviews)

In deciding if he should accompany his employers to America, stay in France, or go back to his native Vietnam, Binh recalls his life in Vietnam, the jobs he's held since leaving there, and the people it has helped him meet.

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2 stars

A rather lazy discussion. Some loved it, others thought the narrator's voice rang false. The book was a bit of a muddle, with deliberate ambiguities, possibly reflecting the passivity of the narrator, who couldn't even control his own narrative.

ArchivalOwl

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March 29, 2009

erinmalone

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Dec. 18, 2009

Subjects

Cooks -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Exiles -- France -- Fiction.
Indonesia -- History -- Fiction.