In the kitchen

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The brilliant new novel from the author of Brick Lane. .'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?''Misfits, ' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job. 'In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart, cosmopolitan hotel and over the course of the ensuing pages, peels back the layers of polyglot London to reveal the melting pot which exists below.Once again it confirms Monica Ali not only as a great modern storyteller but also an acute observer of the vagaries of a contemporary culture.

Description

In this story of the rich and fascinating London subculture of chefs and kitchen denizens, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight kitchen but his integrity--to say nothing of his sanity--is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, and a worker found dead in the kitchen's basement.

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Other Editions

• In the kitchen: a novelScribner2009-01-01
• In The KitcheneBookTransworld2009-01-01
• In the kitchenScribner2009-01-01
• In the kitchenThorndike Press2009-01-01
• In the kitchenDoubleday2009-01-01
• In the kitchenBlack Swan2010-01-01