Présentation de l'éditeur
Marie Prévost is a contemporary Canadian who sets off for Paris to research Proust and escape a failed romance. Sarah Bensimon is a young Parisian Jew who marries into an orthodox family and takes refuge in her kitchen, recreating a kosher version of classic French cuisine. The third woman is madame Jeanne Proust herself, fragments of whose 'diaries' are recreated with impeccably researched detail - as she worries about Marcel, his late-night habits, his diet and his unsuitable friends.All these strands are brought poignantly together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders and insiders - in this intelligent and beautifully judged debut novel.
Revue de presse
Taylor's meticulously crafted novel is an impressive debut ―
Daily Mail
Tenderness and subtlety: it is an ambitious project by a promising writer ―
Times Literary Supplement
The parallel portraits of old and new worlds are vividly atmospheric...contains a lot to admire ―
Sunday Telegraph
Biographie de l'auteur
Kate Taylor was born in 1962 and spent several years in Paris as a child before living in Canada. She is the author of
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen.
