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Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
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Food and Romance and Stories and War
submitted by sdunav on July 20, 2023, 11:27am
A rich, evocative novel with a bit of magical realism about a woman who cooks in a Middle Eastern restaurant in "Teherangeles", CA.
The descriptions of the food, the romance, the stories, and the landscapes are very sensual, in contrast to the news from Iraq, which plays an important part in the story, which is set right before the war.
Honestly, this book has everything....sex, food, betrayal, family secrets, interesting tidbits about foreign cultures and women's different roles, politics, and more food.
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 349 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393325546
SUBJECTS
Arab American women -- Fiction.
Cooking, Lebanese -- Fiction.
College teachers -- Fiction.
Arab Americans -- Fiction.
Women cooks -- Fiction.
Restaurants -- Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.