{"product_id":"man-a-novel","title":"Man: A Novel","description":"139 pp. Translated into English from the original French by Sheila Fischman. Man 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 Man a husband--a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Man 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. Man is a mystery--her 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 Man discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair. Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Man is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.","brand":"Random Hosue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44807366672454,"sku":"2352839","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2352839.jpg?v=1774872128","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/man-a-novel","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}