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In the Kitchen : a Novel by Ali, Monica, 1967- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is In the Kitchen : a Novel about?
<p><br>Monica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the <I>Los Angeles Times </I>Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up to <I>Brick Lane </I>that further establishes her as one of England’s most compelling and original voices. <P>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 he’s 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 Gabe’s hard work looks set to pay off. <P>Until, that is, a worker is found dead in the kitchen’s basement. It is a small death, a lonely death—but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe’s life. <P>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. <p>With pro
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ali, Monica, 1967-
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781416571681
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 2.71 / 5 (1,308 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13