{"product_id":"in-the-kitchen-a-novel-1416571698","title":"In the Kitchen: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1416571698\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ali, Monica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up to Brick Lane that further establishes her as one of Englands most compelling and original voices.Gabriel Lightfoot, an enterprising man from a northern English mill town, is making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, he aims to run a tight kitchen. Though hes under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, all Gabes hard work looks set to pay off.Until, that is, a worker is found dead in the kitchens basement. It is a small death, a lonely death-but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabes life.Enter Lena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. Under her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows-and the future he thought he wanted.With prose that \"crackles with verve and vivacity\" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and \"a truly Dickensian cast of characters\" (The Buffalo News), Alis \"portrait of a middle-aged Holden Caulfield wandering the streets\" (The Plain Dealer) is a sheer pleasure to read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51892424573216,"sku":"NEW1416571698","price":18.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71k9pUbTyKL.jpg?v=1781986190","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/in-the-kitchen-a-novel-1416571698","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}