{"product_id":"mn","title":"Mn","description":"\u003cp\u003eA triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined, Mn is a seductive and luminous work of literature from Kim Thy, whose first book, Ru, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, received a Governor Generals Literary Award and won the nationwide book competition Canada Reads.Mn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mn a husbanda lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Mn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion, time and place, and even bring her customers to tears. Mn is a mysteryher name means perfect fulfillment, yet she and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, and Mn discovers the allencompassing obsession and everpresent dangers of a love affair. Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Mn is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Canada","offers":[{"title":"Kim Thuy \/ paperback","offer_id":47841003110645,"sku":"SONG0345813804","price":9.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71WvhoEHljL.jpg?v=1773752719","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/mn","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}