Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor

Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor

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.

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 *

Kate Taylor is a Toronto writer and cultural journalist, born in France and raised in Ottowa. She has been a theatre critic at The Globe and Mail, winning awards for her reviews and has also contributed to Canadian Art, Applied Arts and The Arts Today on CBC Radio. In 1989 she published Painters, a biography of Canadian artists written for children. She is currently an arts columnist for The Globe and Mail.

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ISBN 13	9780099441984
ISBN 10	0099441985
Title	Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Author	Kate Taylor
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2004-03-04
Number of pages	480
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