Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. When her collection of short stories, Farewell Navigator,...
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This was favorite read of 2005. Beautiful language, inexorable sadness -- a compelling story of Gertrude Stein's and Alice B. Toklas' Vietnamese cook. Binh doesn't fit anywhere; not in Vietnam, not in Paris, not in the countryside. He is invisible. He cooks. He loves and is loved (as much as an invisible person can). He searches for a life that is always out of reach. And his story is told in salt: Salt in tears, salt in food, salt in sweat, salt in the sea. Lovely and haunting.
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salliforth1, March 29, 2006
This was favorite read of 2005. Beautiful language, inexorable sadness -- a compelling story of Gertrude Stein's and Alice B. Toklas' Vietnamese cook. Binh doesn't fit anywhere; not in Vietnam, not in Paris, not in the countryside. He is invisible. He cooks. He loves and is loved (as much as an invisible person can). He searches for a life that is always out of reach. And his story is told in salt: Salt in tears, salt in food, salt in sweat, salt in the sea. Lovely and haunting.(24 of 39 readers found this comment helpful)